I'm more of a Slaughter House III fan myself.

Anything by Allen Dean Foster, especially the Tar-Aiym Krang or Midworld

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Kind of going out on a tangeant here, but....

I think Knights of the Old Republic, and the sequel that would have been released had not LA made them finish the game where it was, would make better Star Wars movies than any of the 6.

There. I said it.

Revan pwns Vader and Obi.

And let Angalina Jolie play Bastilla

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Well, it isnt mindless, whiz-bang entertainment, so no, it wouldn't be a 90 minute hit. More like a BBC Masterpiece theater production with several episodes... maybe like Elizabeth R http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_R

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I think that The Legacy of Heorot would make a good science fiction flick.

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Upon reading that post, and without conscious effort, my brain translated that into Sorority House Slaughter. And I've never seen that movie*!

Book to movie: Steven Brust's To Reign In Hell would adapt well as a fantasy film.
Stephen Baxter's Xelee/Destiny's Children series might do well... his books are packed with incredible detail that could be done very well in a visual medium.


*more than three times

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Well, if you go by loving the title, Zelazny's 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' also springs to mind, would make for a rather different movie.

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I thought only the even numbered entries were any good?

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Two of Zelazny's stories that might work are Jack of Shadows and This Immortal, the former especially. It's extremely visual, even on the printed page. Jack himself is a nicely complex antihero, and I can see Johnny Depp doing a great job in the role.

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Also a great title. I've never read either work.

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Then get going and read them!

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There are literally hundreds of books in my house right now that I need to get going and read. (Most of them don't actually belong to me, but rather pressingly, several of them are library books.)

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

The Zelazny's fairly short, 30 pages or so.
Googling the title will get you the actual short story very easily (first hit)

It was written the year after he got his Master's in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama on top of a Bachelor's in English, I think you'd like it.

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Oh, that's lovely. Such language!

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

The early Zelazny's are some of my absolute favorites, and yes, the language is a large part of that.

When he was thunder in the hills the villagers lay dreaming harvest behind shutters. When he was an avalanche of steel the cattle began to low, mournfully, deeply, and children cried out in their sleep. He was an earthquake of hooves, his armor a dark tabletop of silver coins stolen from the stars, when the villagers awakened with fragments of strange dreams in their heads. They rushed to the windows and flung their shutters wide. And he entered the narrow streets, and no man saw his eyes behind his vizor. Horseman!

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Zelazny's one of the few sf writers known for his wordcraft as well.

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Zelazny was a magician with words. Ever read "Auto-da-Fe'"? Simultaneously an SF homage to and a sendup of Hemingway.

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I haven't read much of Zelazny, but 'Eye of Cat' has been memorable for me.

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I decided today I would re-read "Doors of his Face" and read "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" for the first time. To my delight, I found a book with both in on the shelf - so I don't have to go on an expedition into the more inaccessible parts of the loft.

Unfortunately I fell asleep before I even got to the end of the intro by Theodore Sturgeon. Needless to say I will try again later.

During my science fiction reading heyday, I was a big fan of Roger Zelazny's works.

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I was rereading "This Immortal", and I'm thinking this would make a great Hollywood movie. Where else can you found Alien Overlords, cannibals and mystical heroes and beasts in the same place?

Then the fever broke. Please do not forward this

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Not forgetting interspecies prostitution and sex, though only discussed rather than shown, so that shouldn't affect the rating much.

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Agreed. But I thought of who would make a perfect Dirk Gently while watching the British version of The Office -- Ricky Gervais. He's pudgy, British, and has the general aura of how I always pictured Dirk. I could really see him explaining the concept of the catflap as Newton's greatest invention with all seriousness in a movie.

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The state of CGI art has probably progressed to the point where a good version of Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End could be made; that story has many cinematic elements- giant ships floating over cities (an image stolen by Independence Day), demonic looking aliens, psychic powers, and the end of the world as we know it.

All the story needs is some interesting characters, never Clarke's strong suit.

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Nah, Independence Day stole it from V. V stole it from Childhood's End.

Childhood's End would make for an interesting movie, though I suspect there'd be a lot of flak from the fundamentalist Christians.

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All great suggestions.

Have I missed something or is it just assumed that "Way Station" ("Here Gather the Stars") is at or near the top of this list? I think I've seen some scenes for a screenplay posted ...

Three others for your consideration - all at least somewhat 'movie ready' as written:

"Needle" - although with teen-age kids as the main characters, I can see Disney picking it up, adding a girl, and making a mess out of it. The hardest part would be giving Hunter some real personality - he's (it's) mostly intellect in the story.

Clarke's "Rescue Party". Although a short story, with a direct plot and theme, there is (I think) enough leeway in the details to fill out 90-110 minutes on film. And I would love to see the S9000...

And the quintessential WWII submarine film - set in hyperspace - David Gerrold's "Yesterday's Children".

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Nobody has proposed Orson Scott Card yet "Ender's Game"
But the problem is ofcourse not to spoil the end (which was done for me, when I was halfway through the book and two friends talked about, and at the end you find out that .... (I'll stop here!))

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We once discussed making Way Station into a movie. I think it was 2-3 years ago in a 'Great SF Novels that HAven't Been Made into Movies' thread.

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They're working on a movie already aren't they? I love the book and it would translate well into a movie I think, but where will they find that many child actors with the skill to handle those roles?