[Mad Dawgg]

"Mote in God’s Eye would be spectacular."

Eggsactly Batman!

and A Canticle for Leibowitz

and Ring World

and Snow Crash

and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

and A Stranger in a Strange Land

and Dayworld

and Island in the Sea of Time

and Dies the Fire

and Cryptonomicon

and Lucifer's Hammer

and Earth Abides

and Alas Babylon

and Foundation

and Fallen Angels (by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn)

and Neuromancer

etc. etc. etc.

[buwaya]

Canticle for Leibowitz is my favorite of all of them, but imho impossible to film.
Heck, it’s hard to explain it to anyone under 50.

[longtermmemmory]

I would NEVER trust Hollywood with stranger in a strange land. They would just turn it into a PC left wing fiasco.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Little Fuzzy

Any of A. Bertram Chandler’s John Grimes books (heck - make a mini-series out of them)

The Amber series

Pern