Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV.

This is either going to be really great or really aweful. There is no middle ground with stuff like this.

[ Agreed, though I'm encouraged that Stevenson is doing the screenplay. Not that novelists always make good screenwriters, but at least the vision will remain true. I'm tentatively optimistic, and I've always thought this was the more likely NS book to make it to TV, as much as I might love the concept of seeing Hiro Protagonist up there... I don't see how they could make Snow Crash work. -k]

SCI FI Wire | Diamond Age going to TV