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#4457737 - 01/17/19 11:17 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 33lima]  
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Originally Posted by 33lima
Dan Simmon's 'Hyperion', and 'Fall of Hyperion'. Never read a science fiction book in remotely the same class.


Hyperion in particular would be a good one. I love Simmons' books Illium and Olympos even more, but those are a little TOO grand to put in a movie properly.

Anyone else read the Bobiverse books? Really good scifi without being dry and slow to read. Filled with pop culture references and good humor. If you like 4x space strategy games, you'd LOVE it. 3 books that would be excellent as a movie or three. Solid, original scifi but with humor that would give it broad appeal.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
For We Are Many
All These Worlds

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#4457747 - 01/18/19 12:05 AM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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I just finished We Are Legion, haven't yet started the others. The basic premise is very similar to that of Niven's "A World Out Of Time" but Taylor throws in enough new ideas to make it something original. Had an evening to kill, almost managed to read it in one evening (save the last two chapters), so I had to be lying through my teeth if I wouldn't call it entertaining. smile

Have to say though, I found the density of pop culture reference a bit too much tailored to the reading audience, occasionally reaching almost fan fiction levels.

#4457847 - 01/18/19 06:39 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, it would be more of a disaster movie, but I always liked that book.

Or do some Heinlein like:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Have Spacesuit Will Travel
Red Planet

Or if you're looking for some cheesy action movie fodder try anything from David Drake's Hammers Slammers.

#4458008 - 01/19/19 10:55 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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Yes Ive read a lot of Sci Fi Books.
"The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.
The Forge of God was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987, and was also nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1988."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God

#4458069 - 01/20/19 03:21 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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hmm thinking about this more... I'll add

The Warlock inspite of himself by Christopher Stacheff

and if you could get R/18 movies made,

the Necroscope saga by Brian Lumley

#4458138 - 01/21/19 10:04 AM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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Greg Bear seems to come up a lot in this thread smile

As such, maybe Darwin's Radio + the sequel Darwin's Children could make for an interesting TV series. It's more sociological than sci-fi I guess but the core of the idea is sci-fi. Speculative science let's say smile


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#4482348 - 07/11/19 03:19 AM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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Just read the second book to Greg Bears Forge of God..
Anvil of Stars...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_of_Stars

#4482947 - 07/15/19 08:39 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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I would have liked to see someone like Christopher Nolan have a go at The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.


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#4483040 - 07/16/19 11:47 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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They'd never get the time effects right.


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#4483152 - 07/17/19 09:56 PM Re: Scifi Books that should be movies. [Re: 453Raafspitty]  
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Im surprised no ones mentioned Honor Harrington.

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Originally Posted by 453Raafspitty
Im surprised no ones mentioned Honor Harrington.


Each book as a movie would mean what, 12 or 13 movies just in the HH series alone? Then you have the spinoffs. It’d really have to be serialized, and then it’d have a run longer than Lawrence Welk and The Simpsons put together LOL

I’d definitely pay to see big-budget HH movies IF they were faithful to the books.


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Originally Posted by NH2112
Originally Posted by 453Raafspitty
Im surprised no ones mentioned Honor Harrington.


Each book as a movie would mean what, 12 or 13 movies just in the HH series alone? Then you have the spinoffs. It’d really have to be serialized, and then it’d have a run longer than Lawrence Welk and The Simpsons put together LOL

I’d definitely pay to see big-budget HH movies IF they were faithful to the books.

Only the good ones smile

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I suppose they could distill several books into one movie, such as leaving out all the ground action in “On Basilisk Station,” make Grayson an existing ally and delete all the diplomatic stuff from “The Honor of the Queen,” and combine this with “The Short Victorious War” as one movie. But it’d be more action than DW wrote.


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The problem with HH is that once you jmake one movie, you have basically made them all...

They are extremely formulatic.

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I don't know, I read that first Honor book and it just didn't do much for me. Probably need to get further into the series to give it a better chance. I know it's got a ton of books and very popular.
I just finished my first book in Neal Asher's Polity series. I started with the first book, chronologically, Prador Moon. This was friggin AWESOME. For me, it hits on a lot: space battles and it's fairly cyber punk as well, with a very interesting society. It touches on at a lot of things that I look forward to being developed as I get further in the books. It would make a great Netflix series since he seems to write much of these as independent trilogies, that could be used as seasons.


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Originally Posted by NH2112
I suppose they could distill several books into one movie, such as leaving out all the ground action in “On Basilisk Station,” make Grayson an existing ally and delete all the diplomatic stuff from “The Honor of the Queen,” and combine this with “The Short Victorious War” as one movie. But it’d be more action than DW wrote.

The problem with that is you end up with a movie like Master and Commander where half the fans of the series like it, the other half hate what was cut or changed, and nobody else gives a rat's ass.

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Long ago I heard the phrase "Hornblower in Space" to describe the HH series.."Honor amongst Ememies" I enjoyed the most.

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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
The problem with HH is that once you jmake one movie, you have basically made them all...

They are extremely formulatic.



That is true, but apparently it’s a formula people like! The books are just BEGGING to be made into CGI-heavy movies, if done exactly as DW writes them the battles would be spectacular. Can you imagine seeing 2 divisions of superdreadnoughts and their screens launching double broadsides of missiles at each other as they close? Countermissiles vaporizing them by the score and still they come, decoys and EW pulling even more off track and the remainder streak onward into the point defense clusters. Bomb-pumped laser warheads going off, with some hitting impenetrable wedges while others blast through the sidewalls or straight down the open ends of wedges. This is where they’d have to deviate slightly from DW and use visible lasers instead of his invisible X-ray lasers. And then getting to energy range and really tearing into one another!


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Cant forget the Nukes as well :)The ship designs are pretty different as well.
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