There was a rumor a few years ago that James Cameron (of Titanic and other film fame) was going to bring my favorite book to the big screen. Then the small screen. In fact, I actually saw a trailer for Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars on the Sci Fi channel during the first broadcast of Battlestar Galactica miniseries. I’ve been watching for it forever, put a keyword on my Tivo, and have been so disappointed. I guess it’s never going to happen.
Today, I saw this: Clooney, Others Develop SCI FI Shows, which contained this nugget:

Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.

This is such a good book, I was just considering buying the Audiobook so I could enjoy it again, but decided 40 bucks was a little steep. And now it’s going to be a miniseries on Sci Fi? Way cool. Clooney just seems like a cool guy the more I learn about him. Clearly he has good taste in fiction, eh?
If you haven’t read the book, it’s a story of a small girl who is presented with a book by her father. It’s interactive and teaches her things and adapts and leads her through puzzles and lessons that will help her survive in the real world by presenting it in an alternate world. As she grows, it challenges her more and more and there’s a lot of other bad real world stuff going on that she is able to deal with because of her interaction with the book. It’s been 10 years since I read it, so I was thinking it was time to refresh my memory, but maybe now I’ll wait for the movie. Or see if I can find it on that new Netflix-like Audiobooks service that I’ve heard about. Guess it’s off to Google to see if I can find it.