The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Good news. Leviathan Wakes IS being made into a TV series by SyFy and the authors are doing the scriptwrting – it’s called “The Expanse,” the first season is airing now on SyFy and they’ve already approved Season 2 despite dismal ratings. It’s great. I think someone has already ninja’d you on this … and also ninja’d me on the response.
Don’t know if it’s been suggested but the 3 books of the Paratwa Saga by Christopher Hinz could make a wonderful series of movies. It concerns a future with engineered twin (or triplet) assassins and I’ve rarely read more gripping SF. I highly recommend the books to those who haven’t read them.
OK, so this explains why I liked the pilot episode of the Expanse so much. SyFy airs a lot of crap, but the Expanse is one of those rare attempts at excellence. Got it.
Player of Games* is my pick for best Banks to film, it’s the most self-contained and has the most human protagonist. IMO.
I have not been able to wade through Out Of The Silent Planet, tho I’ve read C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra and That Hideous Strength twice. I’d definitely want to see movies of the latter two & may be able to get into the movie version of the first.
Before one more low-budget Rapture movie, somone needs to go epic with James BeauSeigneur’s CHRIST CLONE TRILOGY.
Or, if we’re headed in a religious-themed direction, how about Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle For Leibowitz, or Neal Stephenson’s Anathem?
Peter Watts “Blindsight.”
Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy.
I think to do them right as a series of movies, they’d actually need to do the Hollywood style cut and splice method, in that I’d think you’d need to start off with a human-centric story, and use that to explain the idea of uplift, wolflings, the Library, etc… and explain humanity’s place in the universe. Then, you could go off and have adventures with Captain Creideiki and company, but I think if you started off with dolphins right off the bat in the initial movie, it would be too weird for most people.
I think David Brin is probably done for, as far as TV is concerned; the execrable movie “The Postman” probably drove the stake through the heart of adapting any more of his movies to the small or big screen. (which is unfortunate; the movie had almost nothing to do with the book, which was fantastic!)
As it happens, Brin liked the movie more than you did: worlds of DAVID BRIN
Ooh, ooh, I got one! Poul Anderson, “The High Crusade”.
Aliens land in England in 1345; things don’t go quite the way they planned.:eek:
Should be easy to do nowadays, and is a great story.
Trouble is that it would be hard to represent Azad on film. Banks was pretty vague about most of the details of the game in the book. And it would be even harder to visually depict a three-gender species, too.
They did make oa film version of this in 1994, with John-Rhys Davies as the priest:
I haven’t seen it, but I understand they don’t play it straight – they play up the silliness angle, and it’s not highly regarded.
So I’d like to see it re-made, correctly. The book’s obviously not intended to be taken altogether seriously, but you ought to be able to strike the right tone without pandering to audiences that want a retread Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I think Worldwar (Aliens with early 21st Century technology invade during WWII) would make for a cool mini series or even series.
I agree wholeheartedly. I read the entire run – the first four-book series, the three-book followup, and the last standalone. The initial quadrology would make a helluvan epic series.