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Please note that I wrote "Science Fiction", not "SciFi" or Fantasy (although I'd like to see a really good adaptation of Lovecraft).
I'll throw out a few to start. 1. Anne McCaffery's "Dragonriders". Some co-workers played with this back in the '80s (one of us was a dead ringer for Lessa) and decided it could only be done with animation. Now it would be possible with CGI and live actors. 2. S.M. Stirling's "Nantucket Trilogy". could be as easily shot as "Master and Commander" was. I have more, but what do the rest of you think?
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Kin Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy could make a nice series of films, I think. Effects technology should now really enable us to put scenes like the escape down the rapidly flooding (which for Mars at that time means great bursts of instantly freezing water erupting from the ground) canyon in the first book, or the crash of the space elevator, or the sight of the ocean waves in 1/3 G on the screen well.
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I've wrote it before, and I'll write it again: Haldeman's The Forever War.
It'll never happen, though. ![]() I also think Marusek's "The Wedding Album" could be an outstanding short-film--ditto for (Sterling's ?) "Scherzo With Tyrannosaur".
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I would love to see John Varley's Titan triology, just because I love the books and I think it would be visually stunning. But looking at Hollywood's history of converting great SF books into movies, I think they would just completely muck them up.
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Worse yet, they would make it decent. All that free love and loveless sex is just too much for this politically correct age.
I've always thought that Philip K. Dick's Divine Invasion would make a great movie -- if it were produced by a film industry from another universe, of course.
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Hmm, how about Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelles The Mote in Gods Eye?
Action, plot twists, stunning visuals, jolly good aliens, strong characters, shocking revelations, moral dilemmas & that essential for movies, a love interest. & how about Pouls Andersons War of the Wingmen/The Man Who Counts, a well thought out(scientifically plausible) planet there! Who would make a good Nicholas Van Rijn? I'd nominate John Rhys-Davies. ![]() |
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Harlan Ellison wrote a brilliant script based on Asimov's I, Robot that I would love to see as a film.
Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust seems almost intended to be turned into a movie, but even though it's a decent read it's not a classic.
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I'd like to second David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr.
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The more I think about it the more I am sure it could survive the transition from book to film quite well. Having said that, I did think Blue Mars was a bit anticlimactic after such a long trawl. Green Mars was great though.
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Isaac Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy" would be an excellent epic, if it could be done right. I was not too happy with the movie "I Robot" based on his short stories. I could see a Foundation movie as part drama/suspense and part sci-fi. There's not a lot of shooting or chasing, mostly a mystery type of movie, where the viewer is given pieces of the mystery, until the end where things are resolved(mostly) and you sit there and just admire the work of a true genius like Asimov.
I am skeptical that "Foundation" would be made the way Asimov would have liked. Hollywood would probably trash it pretty good. |
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