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Sci-fi author Edward Ashton's novel "Mickey7" is getting a big budget movie adaptation at Warner Bros.
The movie will be directed by Bong Joon Ho (director of Parasite, Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, Okja) and will star Robert Pattinson (The Batman, Tenet, Good Time, The Lost City of Z, The Lighthouse).
This is a massive fucking accomplishment for a writer. The book was greenlit for adaptation even before it was officially released. This is only his third novel!
Let's find out who this guy is, shall we?
From his website http://www.edwardashton.com :
Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Mickey7, Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (not that Cabin in the Woods) with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and an adorably mopey dog named Max, where he writes—mostly fiction, occasionally fact—under the watchful eyes of a giant woodpecker and a rotating cast of barred owls. In his free time, he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling. You can find him on Twitter @edashtonwriting.
>So Edward has a wife, three daughters & a steady job? AND he's an extremely successful scifi writer?
>He seems like a genuinely kind-hearted family man who does cancer research in his free time.
>Teaches quantum physics to grad students.
Let's take a look at his Twitter:
>Less than 1000 followers
>Horrible ratio
>Less than 2k tweets, barely any engagement
>Tweets seem normal, cool -- not a single aggressive/combative tweet
>Hasn't gotten into a single fight with anyone online
>Doesn't give a fuck about trying to look cool, intellectual, masculine, woke to his followers
>Overall seems to give zero shits about social media
>His yet unreleased novel gets picked up by fucking Warner Bros and an Oscar winning director, seems to be pretty humble and nonchalant about it.
>Fatrick gets an op-ed published in The Hill (unpaid) -- he tweets about it for months!
Fatrick, if you're reading this... This is what an actually successful sci-fi author looks like. Please take notes.
He has literally NOTHING IN COMMON WITH YOU, except the fact that he doesn't have a blue checkmark either.
The movie will be directed by Bong Joon Ho (director of Parasite, Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, Okja) and will star Robert Pattinson (The Batman, Tenet, Good Time, The Lost City of Z, The Lighthouse).
This is a massive fucking accomplishment for a writer. The book was greenlit for adaptation even before it was officially released. This is only his third novel!
Let's find out who this guy is, shall we?
From his website http://www.edwardashton.com :
Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Mickey7, Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (not that Cabin in the Woods) with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and an adorably mopey dog named Max, where he writes—mostly fiction, occasionally fact—under the watchful eyes of a giant woodpecker and a rotating cast of barred owls. In his free time, he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling. You can find him on Twitter @edashtonwriting.
>So Edward has a wife, three daughters & a steady job? AND he's an extremely successful scifi writer?
>He seems like a genuinely kind-hearted family man who does cancer research in his free time.
>Teaches quantum physics to grad students.
Let's take a look at his Twitter:
>Less than 1000 followers
>Horrible ratio
>Less than 2k tweets, barely any engagement
>Tweets seem normal, cool -- not a single aggressive/combative tweet
>Hasn't gotten into a single fight with anyone online
>Doesn't give a fuck about trying to look cool, intellectual, masculine, woke to his followers
>Overall seems to give zero shits about social media
>His yet unreleased novel gets picked up by fucking Warner Bros and an Oscar winning director, seems to be pretty humble and nonchalant about it.
>Fatrick gets an op-ed published in The Hill (unpaid) -- he tweets about it for months!
Fatrick, if you're reading this... This is what an actually successful sci-fi author looks like. Please take notes.
He has literally NOTHING IN COMMON WITH YOU, except the fact that he doesn't have a blue checkmark either.
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