The Adaptation Bot Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Every six hours, posts plans (of mixed quality) to adapt public domain works in a variety of media. Bot by @cerhendriks with help from Cheap Bots, Done Quick!

Much ADO about Nothing
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING as a tile-matching video game. It will explore technology and intergenerational conflict.
Paperback, 2004
$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Richard III
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's RICHARD III as an illustrated pop-up book. It will explore humour and cosmicist philosophy.
Paperback, 2018
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS as a post-cyberpunk film. It will take aesthetic influence from prehistoric cave art.
Paperback, 2020
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE as a racing video game. It will explore beauty and presentist theories of time.
Paperback, 2017
$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
This time we are loosely adapting Christopher Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS as a weird western television series. It will explore ethnicity and incommensurable philosophical paradigms.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2010
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
This time we are loosely adapting Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS as a New Western film drama. It will take aesthetic influence from ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphics.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
This time we are loosely adapting Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST as a narrative-centred tabletop role-playing game. It will take aesthetic influence from Italian Baroque painting.
Paperback, 2008
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Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's MEASURE FOR MEASURE as a black comedy film. It will explore guilt and the denial of death.
Paperback, 2020
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As You Like It
William Shakespeare
This time we are loosely adapting William Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT as a contemporary workplace comedy television show. It will take aesthetic influence from Arabic miniature.
Paperback, 2017
$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paradise Lost
John Milton
This time we are loosely adapting John Milton's PARADISE LOST as a Senecan tragedy. It will explore grief and moral anti-realism.
Paperback, 2008
$10.95Member price:$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book