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What classic science fiction and fantasy books would you like made into movies or miniseries'?

Posted on 05/16/2005 10:06:17 AM PDT by EveningStar

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To: EveningStar
The Niven-Pournelle collaborations, especially The Mote in God's Eye and Footfall.
21 posted on 05/16/2005 10:15:45 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: EveningStar

Fantasy books by E. Nesbitt: "The Five Children and It," "The Carpet and the Phoenix."


22 posted on 05/16/2005 10:15:52 AM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: BibChr

Ping.


23 posted on 05/16/2005 10:16:18 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: EveningStar

"Riddle-Master of Hed", "Heir of Sea and Fire", "Harpist in the Wind" -- very good trilogy from Patricia A. McKillip.


24 posted on 05/16/2005 10:16:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: EveningStar

Inferno, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle


25 posted on 05/16/2005 10:17:03 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Electricity: the high priest of false security.)
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To: EveningStar
Asimov's Foundation quintrilogy.
26 posted on 05/16/2005 10:18:36 AM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Re-elect Dino Rossi in 2005!)
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To: najida

Was just about to say the same thing. With computer animation today I would love to see Mnementh and Ramoth...been looking for that for years.


27 posted on 05/16/2005 10:18:36 AM PDT by americanMel
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To: EveningStar
Not "classic", but I'd like to see the Fiest Riftwar series.
28 posted on 05/16/2005 10:20:36 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -- Alexander Hamilton)
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To: EveningStar

Madeline L'Engle Time trilogy - Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door, Swiftly Tilting Planet.


29 posted on 05/16/2005 10:20:38 AM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: EveningStar

.......the events of 9-11........


30 posted on 05/16/2005 10:20:56 AM PDT by maestro
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To: EveningStar

The Amber series by Roger Zelazny.


31 posted on 05/16/2005 10:21:36 AM PDT by DameAutour
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To: Lazamataz
Foundation trilogy.

Everything of Asimov's that Hollywood touches turns to sludge. C3PO faintly resembles one of Asimov's prissy robots, and of course Asimov is the most famous author to write about a galactic empire modeled after Rome, featuring a secretive society of priests that make it work, and a mind reading mutant who tries to take control.

32 posted on 05/16/2005 10:21:44 AM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: Lazamataz
Get someone who looks like HILLARY Clinton for The Mule.......Yeah I know he was guy, but.............
33 posted on 05/16/2005 10:22:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (I woke up this morning and discovered my Memory Foam mattress had Alzheimer's......)
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To: americanMel; cripplecreek

I would like to see how they do thread fall and the inside of the dragon's lairs.

And the moral of the stories would be good too.


34 posted on 05/16/2005 10:23:22 AM PDT by najida (OK, so, ya see, uh huh.....I have this stress problem....maybe it's living without running water.)
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To: EveningStar

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and Terry Brook's Shannara series. Both have more than enough material to work with and are particularly suited to conversion to TV. I'd also like to see something based off of L. Neil Smith's Probability Broach. With all the CSI type shows out there, a sci-fi gumshoe/alternate reality thing just might play well.


35 posted on 05/16/2005 10:23:45 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Oooh, I'd love to see Footfall made into a movie! Of course, given Hollywood's leftism, the vegitarian, herd-mentality, pachyderm aliens would probably get portrayed as the good guys.


36 posted on 05/16/2005 10:23:54 AM PDT by Buggman (Baruch ata Adonai Elohanu, Mehlech ha Olam, asher nathan lanu et derech ha y’shua b’Mashiach Yeshua.)
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My Tree Of Life novel ... has it all, garden of Eden, immortality, Israeli Intel, Angels ...
37 posted on 05/16/2005 10:23:54 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: EveningStar

Any series by David Weber, or John Ringo. They may not be classics, but they will be...


38 posted on 05/16/2005 10:23:56 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: kevkrom
And while I'm on "non-classic", how about Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and/or The Diamond Age?
39 posted on 05/16/2005 10:24:55 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -- Alexander Hamilton)
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To: TeenagedConservative

They've been trying to put Enders Game together as a movie for a long long time, now. The Xenocide trilogy would have to follow it, there's a lot of overlap that'd need to be explained. I found speaker for the dead to be a bit dry.


40 posted on 05/16/2005 10:24:59 AM PDT by timtoews5292004
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