I used to have a book that was all short stories made into movies. I know the story for Death Race 2000 and I think The Running Man were in there. Does anyone remember what it was called. I would like to get it again.
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Do you possible remember when the book was published as "The Racer", the story Death Race was based on, was published in a few anthologies.– EdlothiadApr 1, 2018 at 14:48
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One of these?– user14111Apr 1, 2018 at 14:48
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isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?35472?– ValorumApr 1, 2018 at 14:51
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I guess it's one of these anthologies containing Ib Melchior's story "The Racer" aka Death Race 2000. (That story is in a few other anthologies, but these are the ones on the made-into-movies theme.)
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1981) edited by Jim Wynorski:
Reel Future:The Stories That Inspired 16 Classic Science Fiction Movies (1994) edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and Jean Stine:
Science-Fiction Classics: The Stories That Morphed into Movies (1999) edited by Forrest J. Ackerman:
answered Apr 1, 2018 at 15:20
You're probably thinking of Reel Future
Reel Future is an anthology of stories on which films were made, including:
- "The Racer" (Death Race 2000) by Ib Melchior
- "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (They Live!) by Ray Nelson
- "Who Goes There?" (The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
And others. Each story had a little blurb about how it came to be made into a film, and I recall there were some black & white photos from the films as well.
The Running Man was based on a novella by Richard Bachman (a.k.a. Stephen King), which seems to have only been published with other books by "Bachman".
answered Apr 1, 2018 at 15:00
