What Sci-fi Books Would You Like To See Made Into A Movie?

[David Meek]

What would be your choices for the best hard science fiction books to be made into movies? Now, I mean REALLY GOOD movies, or series of movies like Fellowship Of The Ring, not cheapo imitations like Starship Troopers! Here's my list:

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman
The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Pliocene Exile Trilogy by Julian May
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov




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[Burke Strickland]

Yeah -- what they did with Starship Troopers really "bugged" me. :>) I'll second the motion for high quality adaptations of "Childhood's End" (which immediately came to mind just reading the thread's title) and "Foundation Trilogy" -- those are books I thought would make great movies when I first read them in high school. A few years ago, there were rumors afloat that "Childhood's End" was even slated for production -- turned out to be an indie (aka "low budget") sex comedy. Not quite the same thing... :>)

Another science fiction work that could make a great movie was a short story published in Analog in the late 1960s -- "Monument".

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[P-Dub]

I would love to see the Foundation Series made into a movie. How about some of the Robot stories?

A personal favourite of mine is the Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny. This was really my first foray into the fantasy genre, so that might negate it from this Sci-fi thread.




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[David Meek]

Paul,

Yeah, I was sort of excluding fantasy with the comment about hard sci-fi. That's another thread! FWIW, the Amber series will be right at the top of my fantasy list.

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