From SciFI Wire, pointed out to me by Rose Fox:

SCI FI Channel unveiled a new slate of programs in development, which includes shows from executive producers George Clooney, Darren Star and Mark Burnett. SCI FI made the announcement Jan. 12 at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

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.
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Not sure how I feel about this. I love Diamond Age. I like the idea of Clooney being involved in it. I like the idea of Stephenson writing it himself… and yet I don’t. He hasn’t written for TV yet and there is always a tendency to be too precious with your own work.

Hopefully he won’t fall prey to that problem and his pacing will work out for the different medium. Also, let the bitching about his endings commence – I have no problem with it, myself.

Still, I find myself waiting and hoping with a tinge of stand-offish nerves. The property is known. Not much else is. Not really.