Reimagining Gone with the Wind and making Rhett Bulter a Cylon--classic

My husband pointed out to me that I really didn’t explain which "Battlestar Galactica" I was obsessed with in my previous blog. I guess there was a 70’s version that has a cult following, but what I’m talking about is the 2004 reimagining; the show that used the first "Battlestar" as a template, but added details to make it a different show. So it’s not a remake, it’s a reimagining. Here are some books that reimagined some historic classics. These selections were respectfully taken from Novelist.

Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
A fictional account of the life of the eleventh-century Queen Gruadh of Scotland describes how this female descendant of the country's royal line is widowed and forced to wed her husband's murderer, the warlord Macbeth.

Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
Chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett Butler and the people who shaped his world--his unyielding father Langston, best friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the passionate Scarlett O'Hara.

Anxious Pleasures by Lance Olsen
Kafka's Metamorphosis reanimated through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight.

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
Cindy, the beautiful, illegitimate half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara, relates how she made her way to Atlanta to become the mistress of a white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring black politician.

My Jim by Nancy Rawles
Sadie, the abandoned wife of the slave Jim from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," details her life with Jim, his decision to run away with a white boy named Huck Finn, and the bleak repercussions of that decision for her.

Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treachery to ascend the throne.