For me, I'd like Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series to be turned into a movie, a good one, hopefully.

And for scifi, I'd like 3001: A Space Odyssey to be done so as well.

So post your ideas, for scifi and fantasy.

TWO WORDS..................ENDER'S GAME

Any of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorsigan (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-4604856-2936760) books, ideally in order as a series of movies. From clashing space fleets to romance, her books have it all.

Any SF book by David Brin (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553269828/qid=1022978696/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-4604856-2936760) EXCEPT THE WORST BOOK HE EVER WROTE, THE POSTMAN!!!! Good God, I can't believe they picked THAT dog to make a major motion picture out of! Well, could be worse; Somebody could go mad and start making L Ron Hubbard's hack writing into movies...

Blood Music (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743444965/qid=1022978453/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-4604856-2936760) by Greg Bear.

Nine Princes in Amber (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380014300/qid=1022978355/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4604856-2936760), by Zelazny. Great sword and sorcery, and lot's of sequel potential.

I would like to see either Aurthur C. Clarkes books 2061 & 3001, his Rama series or the Venus Prime books made into a movie.

I have to read Enders Game, damn I have to....


I tried reading something by David Brin, I remember it involved a planet called 'Jijo' or something. I found it interesting but I just didn't get into it, I don't remember, maybe I should try again.

The Rama series was AWSOME, but I actually only started on Rama II, because I had no idea at the time that it was the sequel to another book.

Remember the Octo's? Damn those things were awsome! A pinnacle of imagination!

I would have to agree to your first reply and say that the Sword Of Truth series would make great movies. They would most likely equal the Lord Of The Rings movies.

A more modernized version of Earth Abides, by George R Stewart. (which was written in the late 40's)

Duncton Wood by William Horwood, either computer animated or as a cartoon.

The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin would be good.

And then Replay by Ken Grimwood i think would be really good.

And yeah the Rama series was good too. I started with Rama 2 too. :D

Oh and i almost forgot! A World Out of Time, by Larry Niven.

Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm would make a great movie. Humanity, having lost the Earth to its excesses, is rescued by an alien race and becomes a part of a new world. Now, years later, a pilot steers her beastship back to Earth to see what's going on. Incidentally, fans of Farscape's "Moira", and also of the series Lexx (I can't remember the ship's name, unless it's "Lexx") might find Beastship Evangeline a familiar and welcome concept--the living spaceship.

Cowboy Feng's Space Bar & Grille by Steven Brust would make an excellent movie, as well. This tale basically follows the denizens of a bar which has the curious habit of hopping through space and time in response to the presence of nuclear war. Hey, did you hear the one about Sanctuary, Venus? How after the attack they renamed it? To Sanctuary, Jupiter? Sci-fi, goats, and Irish music. And we all miss Rose.

Brust's To Reign in Hell could be well-adapted to a movie in the fantasy genre. It is, essentially, Brust's Elizabethan-laden tale of the revolt in heaven and the fall of the angels.

WB picked up the option on Bradbury's Martian Chronicles sometime about September, 1997. Early reports were that WB had earmarked $80m to produce the flick, but for some reason, the project is shelved. I'm sad that hasn't happened yet. Incidentally, Bradbury has garnered Mel Gibson's interest in Farenheit 451, but Gibson doesn't want to direct this one. (While I'm on Bradbury, I'll mention that the suspenseful Death is a Lonely Business and Graveyard for Lunatics ought to be made into movies.)

Of H.P. Lovecraft, I would actually enjoy a movie production of Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, perhaps inclusive of The Silver Key tales, as well, since they're Randolph Carter tales. And, most definitely, I would like to see a better production of Charles Dexter Ward than the 1992, Dan O'Bannon-penned The Resurrectied (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105242) (starring Chris Sarandon as CD Ward). The O'Bannon script was okay, but like most Lovecraft-inspired films, it was it's own story, merely "based" on Lovecraft.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

The Black Company by Glen Cook

The Stainless Steel Rat books would probably make excellent movies, too.

"Moira

NO!!! YOU FOOLS!!! It's Moya!! You reminded me--the one thing I wanna see is a big budget good movie of Farscape!

I'd like to see the Deathstalker series by Simon Green turned into an animated series.

Enders game all the way!!

The problem with Enders Game may be all the naked kids, but hey that can probably be fixed I guess...

THEY CAN GET FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

While he's in the salamander bunk place most of the people are in their sleeping suits, or naked. Petra was naked the first time Ender met her.

Yeah I know, and he has the fight with that spanish dude naked in the shower.

They could do a waste up fight.

Definately "Ender's Game".

I'd love to see someone try to make a good flick out of "Hyperion", it'd be hard but it's possible.

Being a big DL fan, I'd also give anything for a good movie version of "The Dragonlance Chronicles" by MW and TRH.

any of the "Mars" books by KSR would be cool, so would "Earth Abides" by Stewart.

I wouldnt mind seeing a "Rama" movie, or a "Wizard of Earthsea" movie.

Rock on!

The problem with putting a story into a different media has always been the compatability. Some stories in books just can't be interpreted as movies. I think that the best way is for the author to be on the set. Obviously, this can't always happen. Anyone who has seen a book based on a movie or a movie based on a book, will know what I mean.

I would love to see The Diary of Conrad Stargard done as a series of movies.

Also Hammer's Slammers by David Drake

Anything by david gemmell, preferably First Chronicles of druss the legend or Midnight Falcon. Brian Lumleys Necroscope and Orson Scott Card's Homecomig series. Can I just say that the Ender's Game film isn't going to be able to adequately reproduce the book and because of this I think they shouldn't do it. The book is way too good to be spoiled by a duff movie.

Issac Asimov --- > Foundation series, The first book isn't that
good, but the rest are great!

Issac Asimov ---> Space ranger series. I've only read two, and
don't know how many there are, but they deal
with solving crimes so it might appeal to a wider
audience.

Arthur C.Clarke-> Rama series, need I say more?!?

Arthur C.Clarke-> I would also like to see the rest of the space
odysey books turned into films after the
success of 2001 and 2010.

3001 would be the coolest movie, who needs 2063?

what did 3001 have that 2063 didn't?

The sum is always better than its parts. Surely we should make a movie out of the whole series?

[/FONT] [COLOR=crimson]Neromancer by William Gibson[/COLOR

2063 never stuck with me like 3001 did. That's just my opinion, though.

Ender's Game would be really sweet, but I think I'd be too protective of the story to actually advocate the making of a movie...

Divergence would be cool. And I agree that Neuromancer would be perfect for film.

John Norman's "Gor" stories. It shows the proper relationship between men and women.

"The Vang : The Military Form" its an old book, probably out of print. But the omniparasites in the book, make Aliens look like creampuffs.

The only problem with Ender's Game would be the Peter and Valentine plan, because it'll be boring, watching 2 kids sit in front of the computer. But I really want to see the battles in zero-gravity! That would be so awesome!

Or, stuff by Isaac Asimov! But again, it would be a talking film mostly...Especially the Foundation Series. And they've already put one of Asimov's books into the theatres: The Bicentennial Man, with Robin Williams.

OH OH! I've got it! Nightfall would make a great movie, and it's by Isaac Asimov! Except, they should use people, not aliens, so it'd be more believable.

Ender's Game would need SO many child actors. Can you imagine the horror or that many children with important lines and characters? Goo.

But man, zero-gravity battles (if done right which I'm also skeptical about) would be sweet.

I got one for ya! how about "Everything you ever wanted to know about Sex but were afraid to ask"! he he he....Thats a fantasy book.

Is it fantasy because you'll never get any?

Is it fantasy because you'll never get any?

Ouch, Deena. I think you may be the most hurtful, immature person to ever post on SciForums.

Let's get hitched.

Armor would be a good one.

Originally posted by Deena
Ender's Game would need SO many child actors. Can you imagine the horror or that many children with important lines and characters? Goo.

But man, zero-gravity battles (if done right which I'm also skeptical about) would be sweet.

Yes! The horror of child actors! Including the fact that Ender was 6 (?) at the time of recruitment. :eek: :D Like in Star Wars: Episode 1...did they use horse tranquilizers on that kid or what? I'm a fan of Star Wars, but jeez! :D Talk about expressionless; a gravestone would have been a soccer riot and a barrel of monkeys compared to him. :D :D
(NOTE: The above is purely opinion. Please don't sue me. :D )

I'm sceptical about the null-grav scenes too...wires would ruin it, and The Vomit Comet might not work so well with young children...:eek: :D

They'd probably be able to build the set in space by the time they start production. In an article Card said that it would be a good deal of time before they make a movie but they're definitely going to do it. Eventually. Sooner or later.

:( Hopefully while I'm still around to watch it.

*whines* But I want it noooow....

:D

Definitely? As in, without doubt?

And they'd have to be to the point where children could film in space too. Which...damn that's pretty far don't you think?

I hope not.

i'd go for any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. although it takes a pretty good director to maintain the magic & jokes of the books..

"enders game" is going to be good only if they get the technology to do it properly. and the child actors. What COULD really get interesting though is if they expand it to include the others... particularly "Xenocide".

I'm more inclined to Speaker for the Dead myself.

Hey Frieda, a Discworld movie would be great! :D Which book do you think should make it to the big screen? I liked The Fifth Elephant, just because it had vampires and werewolves, The Scone, and Sonkies, lol! :D The only one I wouldn't like to see in a theatre would be Maskerade, because it's too much like The Phantom Of The Opera. The Last Hero would be good too, because I think they could make the world on the back of four elephants riding on the back of a giant tortoise cruising through the universe look pretty cool...:)

There has been a Discworld cartoon series, it ran on ABC here a while ago. ABC here is the government station, they get all the cheap shows and documentaries.

I'd go for The Last Continent. Rincewind, the Unseen University, the librarian, the bursar and his dried-frog-pills, the luggage, Roo Beer.. it's so much fun, but hard to do i think.

Who'd be suitable to play Rincewind?

Hmmm..haven't read The Last Continent yet...though The Librarian would be hard to play, considering that he is -ahem- an oranguatan (however you spell it). :D But the Bursar and his dried frog pills would be hilarious! :D :D

Rincewind, eh? Well, I've seen the illustrations of him in The Last Hero, and someone like Kevin Spacey might be able to pull it off, since he can look kind of goofy. I'm wondering who can do Lord Vetinari though...and Captain Carrot. :D
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There has been a Discworld cartoon series, it ran on ABC here a while ago. ABC here is the government station, they get all the cheap shows and documentaries.
Was it any good? :)

yeah Kevin Spacey could definately be Rincewind.. that's a good one! the librarian shouldn't be that hard though.. all he says is " ook " ! orang utans can be trained pretty well i guess!

ummm.. the other characters.. no idea! any other discworld readers around here?

the rama series by A. Clarke
the war against the chtorr by D. Gerrold
enders shadow
there is others I just can't think of them right now.

The Rama series, or at least the first one, is being made into a movie.

Ohhhh yeah, but it's going to be quite some time before we can see it.

I like the ones where death is a main character. (either Reaper Man or Hogfather would be best) He'd be digitaly animated and have James Earl Jones for voice over. (only actor i can think of who naturally talks in ALL CAPITOL LETTERS)

The Last Cotinent would be great.

The Truth is good.

Maskerade was a great book but it is too close to phantom to do a movie. (same with Weird Sisters, it's too much like McBeth)

Now here's a tough question, who wold be able to play Nobby?

Nobby? Mike Myers :D

How about Cohen the Barbarian?

Nobby would have to be someone short, yet bursting with energy....OH!! I know! How about Danny Devito? He's always yelling loudly or near spazz-mode, lol :D

Cohen is old and leathery...tough and still sharp in the mind..I don't know many old actors who could pull of a warrior style character. (I only know Cohen and his gang from The Last Hero.)

And I agree with you, Neutrino_Albatross, Death is one of the best characters. :) There's Thief of Time, where he and his buddies Chaos, Famine, Disease (or whatever) are going one last time into the Apocalypse, but it backfires, heh heh :D

"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the
One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."


-- The Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse encounter
unexpected difficulties
(Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)



:D :D

Blue,

I agree, danny DeVeto would be good.

I think I think Hogfather would be a good one to do as a christmas special. Its got Death as a main character (playing the role of Santa Clause), and the Unseen University wizards. Its the perfect combination!

lol@Frieda's quote! :D :D

Death as Santa Claus! lol! :D Now all the bad little boys and girls will really have to fear being on the naughty list. :D "Ho ho ho, Happy Christmas!"

Oh man, I've got to catch up on my Terry Pratchett reading, I don't know what you guys are talking about! :o :)

Originally posted by NenarTronian
Definately "Ender's Game".

Being a big DL fan, I'd also give anything for a good movie version of "The Dragonlance Chronicles" by MW and TRH.
Rock on!

What he said. Raistlin is your God! Well, he almost was anyway, damn Caramon had to stop him. Oh well, I guess the world being a blasted wasteland would have kinda sucked. Still...Raistlin is your God!

Hmm, who could play a convincing Raistlin?

Ender's game could probably make a pretty good animated feature, but stupid adults would no doubt fuck it up while trying to make it "accessible to all ages", 'cause that's clearly what you have to do in animated films.

how bout 'Fallen Angels' by larry niven and jerry pournelle?
get some liberals pissed off for sure. that would make my day. =)

Reading something by Orson Scott Card, there was discussion over making Ender's Game a movie but they wanted to age all the characters (ie: make them all teenagers in battle school) to appeal to teenage audiences and forget child actors. Wouldn't that be awful? :(

I think that the Shadow of the Hegmon, etc. Bean's story on Earth is a little more film friendly than the 3000 year later stories about Ender.

Another good book to movie would be "Sabriel" by Garth Nix

Reading something by Orson Scott Card, there was discussion over making Ender's Game a movie but they wanted to age all the characters (ie: make them all teenagers in battle school) to appeal to teenage audiences and forget child actors. Wouldn't that be awful?

Sounds to me like they're just more interested in seeing teenagers naked rather than children.:D That's the major problem, because if the film was true to the book we'd have kids naked for like, half of the movie (not to mention a fight scene).

But anyway, welcome to sciforums.:)


get some liberals pissed off for sure. that would make my day. =)

I'm a liberal, and I can be pissed off if you want me to be:cool:

Related question that makes things more interesting: What books would make good anime?

As for Ender's Game, they could give them skivies, or some such.

I've always thought it would work better to write a new story for a movie, rather than "alter" a book.

For the most part I hate anime. So I don't think any books would make good anime.


I've always thought it would work better to write a new story for a movie, rather than "alter" a book.

What dost thou mean? Like a similar story in the same universe?

In which case I would agree.

It seems you got to dig to find great anime, some dont' have the motivation to dig, some the time.

You got the idea. I believe I mentioned earlier, I don't think book/movie conversions work, so a new story made specifically for the big screen would be best.

Oh. I see.

Well, the only anime I liked was Princess Mononoke. I've seen other stuff, like Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, but I haven't watched it in years. It didn't seem to be of too high a quality.

You also gotta realize that different people have different tastes. one person's trash is another's treasure. You're probably not an anime person.

I can think of four formats(for lack of a better word)?:
live action(real actors, etc.)
animation
anime
computer animation

The question would also include which one your making the movie as.

I can think of four formats(for lack of a better word)?:
live action(real actors, etc.)
animation
anime
computer animation

Well, the worst would be if all 3 were in one. *shudder* It'd be funny, you'd have a real life actor standing next to an anime character beating a CG monster that looks like Disney's Mickey Mouse. :D

Movies about great books are, to me, a dumbing down and insult to original text. Great books are to intense, personal, and complex to turn into movies that would only deter people from reading a book they saw as a movie.


But my rant aside i would say "stranger in a strange land". If it was 12 hours long so none of the good stuff was left out.

Stranger in a Strange Land? That's Heinlen, isn't it? Ironically (according to your post) I actually read Starship Troopers because of the movie several years ago. I loved it, even if it was a little wierd.

Books are great, and hopefully they will always be great. They always have been great. Movies, or any other form of manufactured entertainment, can never beat an awesome book. But still, it is nice to watch a good movie based on a good book now and again, like The Fellowship of the Ring, for example. I don't know if I'll ever get over how much I love that movie. And the soundtrack. And the book.

*embraces the inner nerd*


Well, the worst would be if all 3 were in one. *shudder* It'd be funny, you'd have a real life actor standing next to an anime character beating a CG monster that looks like Disney's Mickey Mouse.

stop......stop....no more:p


You're probably not an anime person.

This is true. I'm all for scifi, and if the anime is good I'll watch it. I just can't really get into the style of the drawings, even if they are unique...and all. But they just don't speak to me like live action or computer animation, they're not my deal. It's just a subgenre of scifi that I'm not really a part of.

Starship Troopers is a perfect example I read the book after seeing the movie,which got me into other Heinlen books. The book makes a big deal about how men and women are seprate on the ship. While in the movie all you see are naked women. In the book Dizy was a guy who dies in like the first chapter with out any explanation of him just his name.

Starship Troopers I have not seen. Anyone who has read the book will remember that the exo-suits were a bit more practical that what I've heard of the movie. I'm sure there's a few other things they screwed up.

I don't know if they do it in the movie, but at the end of the book, they explain that the ship was named after some guy in 'nam(can't remember exactly).

The ship's name was the Roger Young, I think. And yeah, I was disapointed to see that dizzy was a guy instead of a chick that slept around with everyone:D

But I think that, in spite of its shortcomings, the movie is worth a viewing.

Pollux Stranger in a Strange land is a great book! But a movie.... only if it doesnt have Jeff Goldbloom in it.

What I think would be a great Movie, or even TV series, are the books about Honor Harrington. By David Weber.

I would absolutely kill to see Anne McCafferey's Dragonriders of Pern series developed into movies. Specifically the first three books.

Again, I reiterate this point. THE SHADOW SERIES by George Lucas and Chris Claremont!!!

I mentioned some of these before i think. These books should be made into good movies:
"Earth Abides" by Stewart
"Hitchhiker's Guide" series by Douglas
"Dragonlance Chronicles" trilogy by Weis/Hickman
"We" Zamyatin
"Hyperion" quartet by Simmons
"Mars" trilogy by KSR
"the Dispossessed" by Le Guin
"Cryptonomicon" by Stephenson

:D

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)-the old novel that first popularized and may have introduced the word "Robot."

Hitchhikers Guide should be turned into an animated series, computer animated, I say.

Hitchhikers Guide should be turned into an animated series, computer animated, I say.
Actually there was a mini-series of the first two books. It was pretty good.

Well, okay then.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been any talk of a cinematic Narnia movie, what with the success of LOTR...

Also, I wonder if they'll take advantage of Tolkienmania and make a Hobbit movie with cast members and visual effects from the Ring Cycle films. It would be pretty sweet.

WHat I'd like to see is an author getting into writing the script and being on the scene helping with the directing. That would probably produce the best conversion.

You know they made a Dragonriders of Pern computer game?

I agree. Honor Harrington is one of the better book series out there. I don't think you could start the movies off with Basilisk Station, but the series has everything you need: a great plot, lots of character devolpment, believable setting, and it doesn't drag. AND AN INTERGALACTIC WAR!!!! WOO HOOOO!!! Space war movies are great :) (well, except for the bad ones :))

Mech The Moun that is so awesome that you know who she is! I rarely run into people who know what the books are about!

I've got the entire series, and it is definatly one of the best one's I've ever read. And I read alot. Ask Neutrino. You could ask anyone who knows me, but Neutrino is the only one on here that does :)

Ya ill back that up. The thing that suprizes me is you didnt suggest the battletech series. :D

Speaking of which: I'd REALLY like to see a mechwarrior movie!! I really like that series of books as well. I have almost all of the Battletech books, and all the Mechwarrior games except Mechwarrior 1 (why do you think my handle is Mech :D). See, ya shouldn't have opened your big mouth Neutrino :D

Oh, and a Dark Angel movie. I liked that show. Dang Fox and Sci-fi!! Now the only shows I watch are Andromeda and Mutant X, both on WGN. argh!!

Mech The Moun that is so awesome that you know who she is! I rarely run into people who know what the books are about!

Well let's see if she knows these(if so, cool!), some of which by the way, would probably make good movies.

*Robert Asprin(the Myth Series)
*Christopher Rowley(Bazil Broketail)
*David Eddings
*Elizibeth Moon(Paksinarion)
*Alan Dean Foster(the Flinx and Commonwealth books)
*The Hero and the Crown(Can't remember the author)

The various Man-Kzin Wars.

Well let's see if she knows these

I'm a HE dang it!!

The Myth series was ok, but I still like Honor Harrington. Sorry, don't know the other ones :(

How about filming (depending on how they turned out ) the several Asimov books in thr Foundation series?

This may not be a sci-fi or fantasy book really but I would love to see Dante's the Inferno turned into a movie.

I am astonished that no one has mentioned the best Science Fiction writing of all time, S.Donaldson's the "GAP" series.

It is almost written in anticipation of a screen play.

I speculate that this omission is attributable to the juvenility of the average poster (one who posts) here; an innocence and inexperience that is not too far removed from the days of reading comic books (one poster even suggested that a literary work of Science Fiction be turned into a cartoon, although that poster called it 'anime' as if to give this genre of cartoon special artistic stature).

The problem with a movie enterprise of the 'Gap' series is that it would need to be rated "R" (those who have read the book know what I mean) and the SciFi movie fan-base (teenage boys) would be precluded from seeing the film thereby threatening its financial success.

It'll never be done, of course, but, if done right, could also be the greatest SciFi movie of all time.

Originally posted by Gifted
Well let's see if she knows these(if so, cool!), some of which by the way, would probably make good movies.

*Robert Asprin(the Myth Series)
*Christopher Rowley(Bazil Broketail)
*David Eddings
*Elizibeth Moon(Paksinarion)
*Alan Dean Foster(the Flinx and Commonwealth books)
*The Hero and the Crown(Can't remember the author)

I definitely could get behind a Flinx series of movies. When I was first dating the woman who would later be my wife, I once (very foolishly) said, "I don't think I could ever marry a woman who couldn't read 'The Tar-Aym Krang' and love it." Of course she hasn't read it yet and we've been married 22 years.

About 15 years ago, a neighbour of mine told me he was writing a screenplay based on "Nor Crystal Tears" and we have long since lost touch. I wonder what ever became of it.

barsoom

Yes, Gifted and Barsoom, virtually anything by Alan Dean Foster is a natural for transcription to the screen. I would love to see the Spellsinger series and Midworld, but some of his outrageous one-off stories like Quozl or Glory Lane would be fabulous. As you say:
originally posted by Gifted
The problem with putting a story into a different media has always been the compatibility. Some stories in books just can't be interpreted as movies. I think that the best way is for the author to be on the set. Obviously, this can't always happen. Anyone who has seen a book based on a movie or a movie based on a book, will know what I mean.Absolutely. Most sci-fi is way too cerebral. Not that that’s a bad thing, but it doesn’t translate to a visual medium. Just look at how thin the science is behind most of the successful cinema and video SF. Star Trek, Babylon 5, Star Wars, Farscape, StarGate SG-1, etc. They get back to that original “sense of wonder” that early SF strove for, rather than trying to explain Warp/Starburst/Slipstream drive to the satisfaction of someone with a PhD in physics.

Nobody writes with such vivid visual imagery as Foster. His stuff is as ripe for the screen as Lord of the Rings. And it will require just as much computer trickery. It couldn’t have been done ten years ago.
Flinx and PipSure, I just finished Reunion. Every page is full of rich visual detail.
originally posted by sugarninja
How bout Fallen Angels by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? Get some liberals pissed off for sure. That would make my day. =)Larry Niven’s stuff is also very visual. I’d love to see a Pierson’s Puppeteer, or any day on Ringworld. As for liberals, they’re getting pretty difficult to distinguish from conservatives with their convergence on key issues like censorship and government control of everything from education and charity to energy and communication. Fallen Angels would piss off everyone except us Libertarians.

Since everyone seems to like disaster movies, how about Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer?
originally posted by airdog
R.U.R. (Rossun's Universal Robots)-the old novel that first popularized and may have introduced the word "Robot."Yes, Czech author Karel Capek (I can't get the upside-down circumflex over the C in this damn character set) coined the word from the Czech verb “to work”. Anyone who’s studied Russian will recognize it as a cognate of Russian rabotat’. When it was translated into English, for reasons I’ve never been able to learn, they retained the Czech word instead of just translating it as “worker” or something like that. As far as I know robot is the only English word whose origin is credited to the language of my ancestors.
originally posted by Barsoom
When I was first dating the woman who would later be my wife, I once (very foolishly) said, "I don't think I could ever marry a woman who couldn't read The Tar-Aiym Krang and love it." Of course she hasn't read it yet and we've been married 22 years.When my wife was working on her M.A. in English she took a course in children’s literature and asked if I could recommend any SF that would fit the program. I suggested Midworld, which was quite a stretch, but I knew that if I had read it as a child it would have made a huge impression. To my astonishment she read it, loved it, and agreed with me. Maybe too deep for little kids, but certainly not beyond the reach of a junior high student, much less high school.

In our world it was she who gave me the challenge: read the novel she wrote her thesis on, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I made it through about a hundred pages. It felt like a hundred years.

By the way, our favorite SF/fantasy movie is The Dark Crystal. It was produced by Jim Henson and indeed it’s entirely done with puppetry, but it is about as far removed from Kermit and the Muppets as Tool is from Elvis.

An awesome book that I think would be great as a movie is "A Fire Upon the Deep." By Vernor Vinge. I'm not done with it yet, :rolleyes: but it's AWESOME. I love the skroderiders. Of course they're one of the things that would be difficult to adapt to the screen.

This book wouldn't do well as a movie, perhaps a mini-series would work. Plus, the Tine's race would be really hard to show in a movie.

It would be interesting, though, to see a director's depiction of Relay, and "The Beyond."

If you haven't read this yet, I highly suggest getting a copy! It's got stuff for everyone: humor, romance, action, deceit, politics, ect.

READ IT!

Namarie!

~Nivao
Ghost of Mirkwood

Chronicles of Narnia...i believe it is being turned inot a movie already by Universal studios

Definatly "A Mote in God's Eye" by Niven.

Originally posted by Fraggle Rocker
Since everyone seems to like disaster movies, how about Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer?

Anything by Niven and Pournelle! The Legacy of Herot anyone?



When my wife was working on her M.A. in English she took a course in children’s literature and asked if I could recommend any SF that would fit the program. I suggested Midworld, which was quite a stretch, but I knew that if I had read it as a child it would have made a huge impression. To my astonishment she read it, loved it, and agreed with me. Maybe too deep for little kids, but certainly not beyond the reach of a junior high student, much less high school.

When my youngest son was in Grade One, he once came home crying because the teacher wouldn't let him get a book in library class. I marched right down to the school and confronted her. She said, "He was disruptive in class and wouldn't listen during storytime." Apparently the book they were reading in 'storytime' was "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by Dr. Suess, which Al (my son) had read many times years before. I explained that he was familiar with the book and was probably bored. I suggested that she could have perhaps allowed him to pick another book and read on his own.

She said she had tried that but he refused to pick a book from the 'appropriate' shelf. I asked her to show me the shelf and it was one containing more Dr. Suess (of the most elementary kind). I explained to her that, at home, Al had just finished the novelization of "ET: The Extraterrestrial" and was currently reading the booklength version of "Enemy Mine" by Barry Longyear. She refused to believe it and I had to have Al read something from an 'adult' book before she would believe it.

In the years since Al has turned a bit away from reading and it was with great joy that I heard him ask tonight, "I just finished 'Moon of Mutiny'. It was really good. Have you got anything else like that?"

I gave him "Plague Ship" by Andre Norton and "For Love of Mother-Not" by Alan Dean Foster.

I think Chronicles of Narnia movies would be lame. I liked the books, and they turned them into a funky miniseries, and the miniseries just wasn't that great.

Alan Dean Foster...haven't read anything of his. Recommend his best book and summarize it for me please!

Another hard question... although I'm truely a fan of his Flinx and Pip series, I would have to say... "Nor Crystal Tears". It's a book about a small farming community of a backward planet that gets a visit from some repulsive aliens. These aliens are hideous! They actually wear their skeletons on the inside, not the outside like any self respecting intelligent insect. A first contact story from the aliens point of view. Give it a try.

barsoom

Darn I liked that book (Nor Crystal Tears) but it has bees so very long scince I thought of it. Thanks for bringing it up.

Go RyoZenZuZex!

Originally posted by Pollux V
I think Chronicles of Narnia movies would be lame. I liked the books, and they turned them into a funky miniseries, and the miniseries just wasn't that great.




Have you ever seen early attempts at Lord of the Rings???:rolleyes: sad little pieces of entertainment they were and look at it now;)


Tolkien's "Hobbit" anyone

I think that they should make a movie out of the Four disc playstation game Legends of Dragoon. That game has one of the best RPG story lines I have ever played. It would make a great movie. Even if they made it computer animated like Final Fantasy the Spirits Within, it would be awsome.:m:

They are finally making a movie out of my favorite anime series COWBOY BEBOP. This will be released in theaters!:m:

I cant believe anyone has not mentioned E E "Doc" smiths "Lensman" series! I mean the first 6 books, the last one only has one lensman in it and doesnt really belong. They have everything, battles, bigger battles, and even bigger explosions, complete with 2D characters that would feel right at home in many of todays action movies, not to mention really mega gigantic explosions, you could spend an entire special effects budget on getting them right. Plus its the good old good versus evil stuff, total schlock, but entertaining fun. Except perhaps for todays audience, theres not enough sex.

HHmm, then theres all the more normal peoples work say Poul Anderson or C J Cherryh and others whose books would make perfectly good scifi films. Not necessarily brilliant, but I think many of them would translate well to the screen.

The problem with the second and third of Brins uplift "trilogy" is that they are too huge and complex, with multiple characters and much going on, which would make them very hard to pull off in a film, look at the trouble with Dune for example. I have the first of the second trilogy, and cant be bothered reading it cos its so damned huge.

Originally posted by guthrie
I cant believe anyone has not mentioned E E "Doc" smiths "Lensman" series! I mean the first 6 books, the last one only has one lensman in it and doesnt really belong. They have everything, battles, bigger battles, and even bigger explosions, complete with 2D characters that would feel right at home in many of todays action movies, not to mention really mega gigantic explosions, you could spend an entire special effects budget on getting them right. Plus its the good old good versus evil stuff, total schlock, but entertaining fun. Except perhaps for todays audience, theres not enough sex.

What do you mean? Kim and Clarissa must have had sex... where else could all those second-stage lensmen come from? I do think serious thought should be given to this series. There was a Japanese anime, called "Lensman", which was very loosely based on the book "Galatic Patrol". It wasn't very good plot wise and not very representative of the rest of the books.



The problem with the second and third of Brins uplift "trilogy" is that they are too huge and complex, with multiple characters and much going on, which would make them very hard to pull off in a film, look at the trouble with Dune for example. I have the first of the second trilogy, and cant be bothered reading it cos its so damned huge.

Brin can be wordy but in the end he's worth it. I haven't gotten around to completing the second trilogy, however I do intend to. I would like to think that someday Brin's Uplift universe will make it to the screen. The movie wouldn't have to follow any of the books. It could be something he writes specifically for the screen... who knows.

Well, they never had sex on screen, is what i am thinking, a few good kisses and thats it. And lots of sighing after each other in the approved fashion.

As for Brin writing something specifically for the screen, that leads us to ask would it be a new book for us fans, or else a mangled for the screen version of his stories? After all a certain amount of cutting is necessary for the screen, look at LOTR. Therefore would that destroy his original plots and ideas too much or not? I suppose it just depends.

This is why, for SciFi, I prefer a good mini-series over a movie ANYDAY...With a mini-series you can show more of the story, and sometimes a smaller budget can make your film better by forcing you to use more intelligent dialogue, plot twists, camera work, etc.

-AntonK

WAR OF THE WORLDS

but this time set in London in the late 19th century like it's supposed to be!!!


Starship Troopers is a perfect example I read the book after seeing the movie,which got me into other Heinlen books. The book makes a big deal about how men and women are seprate on the ship. While in the movie all you see are naked women. In the book Dizy was a guy who dies in like the first chapter with out any explanation of him just his name.

I never read the book but the one thing that baffled me about the film was this, how come they had the technology to transport an army across half the known universe but when they landed on the 'bug' planet the only mode of transport from A to B was their 'plates'. 'plates' of meat = 'FEET'.

The "Culture" series by Iain A Banks

I'de like to see Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" turned into a scifi movie, even if it did have to be rated mature.

Belgariad - David Eddings

Belgariad - David Eddings That would certainly be interesting.

It would have to be along the lines of Lord of The Rings; made into a trilogy but would anyone have the "guts" to put up the front money?

The Lord of the Rings is being made into a trilogy, so why not.

No offense, but the Lord of the Rings trilogy is a bit more popular worldwide, which is why it was fronted so much money to be made. Secondly, it's been attempted before, making it easier to "learn from past mistakes".

Personally, I'd like to see another Babylon 5 made-for-TV movie. Take the Techno-Mage novel series for example. That would be spectacular.

In the Beginning and Thirdspace were good. I wasn't much of a fan of River of Souls, possibly because I've never really been interested in the Soul Hunters. I find them boring. But the Techno-Mages ... Ahhh yes!

Another possibility would be the Psi Corps novels. It would be nice to see Walter Koenig reprise his role as Bester for the climatic ending. After all, they made Peter Jurassic look much older when they shot the scenes of old Emperor Londo in future Centauri Prime. Why not?

Sarcophogus - I agree with you which is why I said "if anyone had the guts".........

As for B5, sheer writing brilliance and so well acted. A masterpiece of Sci Fi.

No offense taken. sarcophagus, You are right , of course, Lord of the Rings has been done before, and is more accepted worldwide , however, what I am referring to is doing it the right way. It should not be done by combining two or more books together into one movie, but each book done on its own. I think all trilogies should be done this way, otherwise you are forced to leave out large sections that should be included to make the story complete, or make it so long that people won't sit all the way through it.

LOTR - I agree. I was sitting watching the first two and thinking to myself. they missed that out, or this out.......

Perhaps LOTR could have been made four or even five movies?

Well, I think you're being a bit insatiable, considering Tolkien was completely against the novel being split up into even 3 parts.;) Nah, you're right- I cried when the Barrow-Downs weren't in Fellowship...

I seem to recall reading/ hearing htat Tolkein originally wanted to make the other two books as long as the first one. think of how long the fellowship of hte ring takes to get going. that used to worry me when i was younger, now I wish he'd had the time/ energy to make the otehrs longer.

I think that david webers Honor Harrington series would make a a at least decent movie series, only problem would be honors telempathic communications with her treecat, nimitz in the later books. path of the fury by same author would be cool, can't beat the combination of Alicia a cyborg in the elite dropcommandos, tissophone the last of the greek furies( a demigoddess) and megera a living ai of an alpha synth warship.
for a fantasy id pick black magician trilogy by trudi canavan

J.R.R. Tolkien "Hobbit"

J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" - Ralph Bakshi's animated sequel

I'm never happy with books of any genre turned into movies. "Being There" and "Lord of the Rings" are the only two exceptions I can think of.

Usually when they make a movie out of fantasy and sci fi they emphasize the visuals. You already know the story, so they want to give you the experience of feeling like you're there. The recent "Dune" made me feel like I was there, but I hadn't read the book in so long that I had no idea what was going on story-wise. The Harry Potter movies are probably very engaging for younger audiences, but the stories are lost.

"Lord of the Rings," as I said, was a good job, but it took nine hours. How long would "Ringworld" have to be?

I think that david webers Honor Harrington series would make a a at least decent movie series, only problem would be honors telempathic communications with her treecat, nimitz in the later books. path of the fury by same author would be cool, can't beat the combination of Alicia a cyborg in the elite dropcommandos, tissophone the last of the greek furies( a demigoddess) and megera a living ai of an alpha synth warship.
for a fantasy id pick black magician trilogy by trudi canavan
I love David Weber. My favorite of the Honor Harrington series was the one where she escaped from hell (the prison planet).

Have you read any John Ringo? His work with David Weber (March Upcountry and it's sequels) are very good. And his solo stuff's not bad either.