Posted on 05/16/2005 10:06:17 AM PDT by EveningStar
Keith Laumer's "Retief" stories would be a great tv show...
Some of the Ensign Flandry stories too.
How aBOUT "Stranger in a strange land".
That had it all.
I would very much second The Stars My Destination and The Dreaming Jewels. Another stand-alone novel I would very much like to see is The I Inside by Alan Dean Foster. I also like his Icerigger series a great deal.
Mything Link
anything by L Sprague de Camp
anything by Gene Wolfe
I've got the first book in that series, but I haven't read it yet.
I think some CGI work eould be need to be included there
I will broaden my List of Abominations What Should Never Be to include sequels, excepting only the second and third Aliens. (The fourth one bit.)
I always liked the Dorsai books, but especially loved Tactics of Mistake. I think it would make a great movie.
By the way, did Dickson ever complete the series? I thought it ended one book short (at the end of The Final Encyclopedia), with Hal Mayne and most good guys trapped on earth and the Final Encyclopedia. I also heard Dickson died in 2002 or so.
Poul Anderson's Tales of the Time Patrols with Manse Everard. Or his Future History series with Anson Guthrie and the Lunarians. Or Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Or David Brin's double trilogy re: his Uplift sagas. Or...
Thanks,
I'm pretty sure I've read all those and, on second thought, believe The Chantry Guild is the final book chronologically. I'm still thinking the series ended incomplete.
By the way, Time Storm is another book I would definitely like to see made into a film.
Hmm, I don't like Heinlein's later "adult" work, with the exception of Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Puppet Masters, and Starship Troopers. All of which would make very good movies. Except with Puppet Masters you've got the nudity and Moon, the clan marriages and stuff.
Heinlein's juveniles would make great films. "Rolling Stones" - and put in the show they wrote! Or "Tunnel in the Sky", not much budget for special effects needed there. Or some of his short stories, hey, if they can turn anything Philip K. Dick wrote into a halfway decent movie, what about "The Man Who Sold the Moon" or "The Green Hills of Earth"?
That book was fantastic! One of the best I have ever read.
I'm not sure that Hollywood could capture the essence of the book. Come to think of it, it may translate as rather boring as much as I hate to say it.
Not to me but to the general public I would wager, although the last scenes would be awesome. I am sure the last scenes would be too much for Hollywood to follow through with as well.
As for Enders Game. How could they translate child abuse to the big screen?
Arioch7 out!
You haven't read Drake, then...
Hollyweird actually did a pretty good version of "The Puppet Masters".
See post 67 - and some of Heinleins' juveniles have been made into animated features and made the transition quite intact.
TPM was a pretty good movie. They had to set it in the modern day because of budget issues, but they did quite well with it. Of course, Stargate came out the same week and crushed it.
Ah, the Foundation trilogy. My introduction to Science Fiction as it was intended to be written. But stop after the first three books - resist the temptation to keep adding to the story.
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