By Leo Barraclough
KERN'S WORLD – A short microfilm inspired by Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time
International Features Editor
Nafta Films, headed by Esko Rips, and Film and Music Entertainment, headed by Sam Taylor, have teamed up to adapt Stanislaw Lem's novella "The Inquest of Pilot Pirx." Previous films based on Lem's work include Steven Soderbergh's "Solaris," starring George Clooney, and György Pálfi's "His Master's Voice."
British science fiction writer Adrian Tchaikovsky has adapted Lem's story for the screen. Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" series won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Assn. Award. He recently spoke at Worldcon in Glasgow on the topic "AI and the End Times – Do Androids Dream of Killing Us All" and was previously a guest speaker at the Turing Institute's AI UK conference.
