The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

[UglyCasanova]

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Hafta agree. On that list I might would add Coyote.

A movie of Snow Crash or The Mote in God's Eye would be incredible.

 

[So]

While Mote would make a great Sci-Fi movie, I think the bet Niven-Pournelle fit for the big screen would be Footfall.

All you really need to do to make it fit today is to change "MIR" to ISS.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: So
While Mote would make a great Sci-Fi movie, I think the bet Niven-Pournelle fit for the big screen would be Footfall.

While Footfall was a great book...I'm just not sure how Elephant looking aliens will translate on-screen.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: So
While Mote would make a great Sci-Fi movie, I think the bet Niven-Pournelle fit for the big screen would be Footfall.

While Footfall was a great book...I'm just not sure how Elephant looking aliens will translate on-screen.

Why not? Could do it fairly convincingly with good CG, IMO.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Well one could argue that the Matrix borrowed heavily from Snowcrash.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Definitely would love to see The Man in the High Castle, the Belgariad series and The Mote in Gods Eye done properly. The Belgariad will never happen as it's too LotR and doesn't have the reader base of Tolkien as a starting point, but there's no excuse for not doing the others. The Man in the High Castle seems like a no-brainer. Philip K Dick stories have done VERY well at the box office. Bladerunner and Total Recall were big successes.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: So
While Mote would make a great Sci-Fi movie, I think the bet Niven-Pournelle fit for the big screen would be Footfall.

While Footfall was a great book...I'm just not sure how Elephant looking aliens will translate on-screen.

Why not? Could do it fairly convincingly with good CG, IMO.

Oh, I'm not saying that the Fithp couldn't be given a decent representation through CGI. Just that the movie going public would think that elephant looking aliens would be silly.

 

[LordMaul]

Anything by Phillip K Dick. Blade Runner was a start. Scanner Darkly wasn't exactly what I would be looking for.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Niven's Ringworld and Asimov's Foundation series.

 

[nakedfrog]

The Amber series could be great.

 

[ggnl]

Ill go with the Gateway series by Frederik Pohl. The premise of the first book especially seems like it could be made into a fairly riviting thriller.

 

[TheBloodguard]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: So
While Mote would make a great Sci-Fi movie, I think the bet Niven-Pournelle fit for the big screen would be Footfall.

While Footfall was a great book...I'm just not sure how Elephant looking aliens will translate on-screen.

Why not? Could do it fairly convincingly with good CG, IMO.

Oh, I'm not saying that the Fithp couldn't be given a decent representation through CGI. Just that the movie going public would think that elephant looking aliens would be silly.

True, I suppose the public might dismiss it out of hand. Perhaps if they made them only have a more passing resemblance to elephants?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Niven's Ringworld and Asimov's Foundation series.

I've heard they are in fact making a movie of Ringworld.

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Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages. There have also been many abortive attempts to adapt the novel to the screen[1][2]. In 2004, the Sci Fi Channel reported that it was developing a Ringworld miniseries

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Niven's Ringworld and Asimov's Foundation series.

I've heard they are in fact making a movie of Ringworld.

link

Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages. There have also been many abortive attempts to adapt the novel to the screen[1][2]. In 2004, the Sci Fi Channel reported that it was developing a Ringworld miniseries

So, it will be filmed in the backwoods of Canada and have horrible acting then?

 

[m1ldslide1]

What, no Neuromancer??? Somebody slap me if I'm just not aware.

 

[jonks]

Never heard of Mote but damn, that's now on my short list.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
What, no Neuromancer??? Somebody slap me if I'm just not aware.

Johnny Mnemonic (also based off one of his earlier stories) is the closest I've seen. I suspect any new movies to be poorly directed and acted, with gratuitous CGI and miserably adapted plot. And everyone will claim it's derivative, as "The Matrix already did it".

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: TheBloodguard
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

nothing like a philosophical slow paced cerebral character study to draw in massive crowds.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: jonks
Never heard of Mote but damn, that's now on my short list.

Really good book. One of my favorite sci fi's.

 

[MaxDepth]

I've always wondered after reading a particularly good book on whether or not it would translate well to the screen.

Stranger in a Strange Land, I think, would end up with almost the exact same storyline as Being There.

Nine Princes of Amber would make for better story telling now that CGI has really improved.

Funny thought: The TV show, Life on Mars, is sorta based off an Edgar Rice Buroughs's story called, John Carter of Mars. (Which is being speculated as a Pixar movie for 2012.

The ones I would like to see come to the big screen:

- Stephen Donaldson's "Gap into..." stories. It would have to be several movies, but there would be an opportunity for TV spin-offs.

- Heechee Saga. You wouldn't have to film it all, just the the first book really.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Well one could argue that the Matrix borrowed heavily from Snowcrash.

One could argue that many things have borrowed heavily from Snow Crash.

Neuromancer appears to be absent, and since they mention Gibson by name, I have to believe they are aware of the book, and did not list it anyway. The fools!

Frederick Pohl is a pompus pole smoking communist. I have been to his house (he named it!). I have shaken his hand, and taken classes with is insipid troll of a wife, Betty Hull. Both of them firmly believe in total socialism. I wouldn't read anything he wrote if god commanded it. Puke on him.

Did someone seriously suggest that those silly David Eddings children's books should even be read much less shit out on the masses via film?

 

[BurnItDwn]

World War Z

 

[Drako]

I think some of the Drizzt series would make a good series of animated movies. Of course I'm an old D&D geek, so I might be biased .

 

[Kadarin]

Snow Crash is an outstanding book, but I have trouble seeing the complexity of it translating well to the big screen.

The same goes for Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy.

Dan Simmons' Illium/Olympos books might work, but it wouldn't be easy and nor would I think it would appeal to a wide audience.

For movies, I think things tend to work with relatively simple stories and strong characters.