# SF Books You'd Like To See As Movies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 16, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-books-youd-like-to-see-as-movies/290337 "2005-02-16T10:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-books-youd-like-to-see-as-movies/290337/61 "2005-02-17T22:29:01Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I’m sure he did know, since he refers to the characters as squares and triangles. They’re never described as such in _The Gods Themselves_, only in “Gold” (where the director comments that they’re not described in the book, so he was free to interpret them).

Ok, now I’m less confused. I read that book about 20 years ago and couldn’t remember anything about squares and triangles. That explains why that had been mentioned.

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**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-books-youd-like-to-see-as-movies/290337/62 "2005-02-18T01:07:03Z")

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**Empire from the Ashes** by David Weber

I mean, c’mon! The whole thing is a protracted space battle… (more or less)  
Starships the size of the moon (good guys) vs millions of other starships kilometers in length (bad guys) using weapons capable of obliterating planets against each other…  
… oh man… I would SO love to see those battles on a screen…  
One specific attack has a fighter launching a missile that can hyperspace within atmosphere and pop back into real time right before impact. Hard impact on a ground target by a solid object that travels at .8c as it crosses back… Big boom… very big boom… damn that’d be sweet.  
Good read to boot. (well if you don’t want anything particularly deep thought provoking at least)

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