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      4 months ago

      Thank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.

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      4 months ago

      ‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987.

      As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.

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    4 months ago

    This is great news for Frakes.

    He was on the upswing as a director until the debacle of the Thunderbirds movie basically made him unemployable.

    Star Trek has enabled him to get back into directing work, and even some acting.

    He’s been picking up directing work beyond the franchise over the last few years, but an EP supervising director role for an entire limited series adaptation of a prestige author is definitely a step forward.