[CompSciGuy]

Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson

Cheers,
CSG

[Xenalyte]

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

NONE OF THEM.

Making movies from books is admitting that you are creatively and intellectually bankrupt.

[Xenalyte]

And while I'm on my soapbox, Hollywood had best keep its deve mitts the hell off George Martin's Songs of Ice and Fire series.

[kAcknor]

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

None. Whatever I choose, I know for a fact that Hollywood would water them down, PC the crap out of them, and turn them into a politically liberal statement.

I just cant take it anymore. ;)

For the record, I thought both "Battlefield Earth" and "Clan of the Cave Bear" were great books, but today they are forever marred by the pitiful and ignorant attempts to turn them into movies...

[GailA]

The Dragon Riders of Pern by ANNE MCCAFFREY Dragon Riders of Pern or any of Ms Mccaffrey's other series, The Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley Darkover

[bondserv]

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

[Little Ray]

Honor Harrington - ALL OF IT.
March to the Stars - John Ringo
Bolo (Keith Laumer and friends)
Liaden Series (Lee and Miller)
The Rolling Stones (There is a LOT more potential material in there - like Grandmother's casion in the Belt)
Red Planet (Heinlein - what about After the Revolution?)
Podkayne of Mars (the further adventures of Poddy and bratty brother)

However, all this would require thought on the part of the audiece, dooming it.

[HitmanLV]

Not a classic, but I'd like to see 'Wild Cards' adapted for the big or small screen. Though the series lost me by vol 4 or so, I think it continued to volume 80 or 90. :-)

[grellis]

The Silmarillion. The only possible way to do it properly would be a miniseries, since nobody in their right mind would sit through a 30 hour film.

Well, maybe Fassbinder fans.

[g'nad]

David Drake's Hammer's Slammers

[kcar]

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...

[Bernard]

Or, "Tiger, Tiger" (I forget the author)

"Shockwave Rider" (John Brunner)

The Tarot series by Philip Jose Farmer

[MilspecRob]

The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley.

[Interesting Times]

Blue World, by Jack Vance. Also, The Face.

EarthSea Trilogy (skip the 4th one), by Ursula LeGuin.

[petro45acp]

"FRIDAY" by R.A. Heinlein

I read it once a year or so, best opening paragraph ever!

Top sends

[boris]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Heinlein
Atlas Shrugged; Rand
The War Against the Cthorr; Gerrold
Beneath the Eye of God/A Covenant of Justice; Gerrold
Manifold Series by Baxter
All books and stories by Cordwainer Smith
All books and stories by Jack Vance

For starters.

--Boris

[SunkenCiv]

P.K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". The movie "Blade Runner" merely used some of the character names from the novel.

[FrogMom]

Is it too late to get in on the conversation?

The Pern series would be great! When I saw LOTR, one of my very first thoughts was that NOW the technology was ready to tackle the dragons.

Ender's Game, of course. Not sure how they can get kids to show the range of emotions necessary, but, hey!

Forever War, absolutely. The libs would love when he comes home after one of his missions and everyone is faggot gay.

The books that Heinlein wrote for Boys Life would be great! Good morals in them, good values, great sub-rosa societal commentary. Remember The Star Beast or Red Planet?

Not mentioned so far, maybe because they'd translate best as children's stories are James Whites Sector General series with their wealth of odd aliens.

Also, good children's movies could be made of Hal Clements Starlight and Mission of Gravity. Good stories about the little guy winning through determination and ingenuity without the big guy being evil.

The one that no one has mentioned has me worried, am I the only one who thought that Greg Bear wrote a GREAT book in The Forge of God? The sequel would be harder to translate because it features so much "slicking", but the story is good.

Great topic, BTW!

[muir_redwoods]

Childhoods End and the Rama series by Arthur Clarke

Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson

[MadIvan]

The short story, "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft.

Regards, Ivan