HBO has announcer Asimov's Foundation will be made into a series. What Sci Fi book or books would you want made into a TV series?
Ask HN: Which SciFi novel(s) would you want made into a TV series?
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#2The Baroque Cycle + Cryptonomicon
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#4The Baroque Cycle + Cryptonomicon
I'd be interested in seeing either Frederick Pohl's Heechee series or Ben Bova's Grand Tour series.
For batshit insanity and HBO skinflick appeal, maybe L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth.
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#5Chronicles of Amber would make for a good TV series.
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#6Snow Crash was originally meant to be a graphic novel--with some clever screenwriting, it could easily be stretched out to 12-13 episodes (or at least a miniseries).
Anything in the Slammerverse could be made into a serial form, again with a little work to preserve continuity. It's already got a lot of material in the anthologies, so it shouldn't be too hard. Hell, if you could get Drake to revisit the Lacy and His Friends universe, it would be rather timely.
A series based on Niven's Gil the Arm protagonist would be fun for a series or two--the writing chops required could be found in anybody with experience writing crime dramas or who-dun-its, with a bit of extra worldbuilding for organlegging and telekinesis.
Maybe something based on The Stainless Steel Rat? Harrison is dead and buried (sadly!) so he wouldn't be too offended.
Honestly, the problem with a lot of science-fiction books is that, once the core ideas are explored and the conflict resolved, it's best to kind of move on.
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Actually, a post-apocalyptic series based on Lucifer's Hammer or War Day would be great. Jericho actually had its moments, but went too soon.
Comedy option for HBO: The Stone Dogs.
Even better option: a port of Turtledove's World War alternate history.
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#7Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
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#8- (very obscure) Henry Kuttner's "Hogben Chronicles" - about a family of radioactive mutant hillbillies, absolutely hilarious.
- Stanislaw Lem's "Tales of Pirx the Pilot"
- Clifford Symak's "City"
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#9Altered Carbon has gotta be the best cyberpunk novel in a long time. Gritty, not too fantastical - it just nailed the genre perfectly.
I'm also enamored with The Culture. Not any particular story, really. Just the setting of post-scarcity + friendly AI. It's like an inverted Star Trek. Everyone is having a blast, and interference is pretty much a moral requirement. Apart from a sitcom set on some GSV, Special Circumstances provides all the setting necessary for tons of fun.
Both worlds would have ample opportunity for sex, drugs, nudity and violence. (Which is the only reason I bother watching Game if Thrones these days.)
Asimov's Robot books may also be prefect for HBO. Sorta like a hardboiled detective, except robot minds. (I enjoyed those a lot more than Foundation. While fun rides, the basic premise of predicting everything via psychology is just... eh, unrealistic.)
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#10A good book basically can't work as a TV show, and vice versa. I'd rather the TV people came up with their own stories that will actually work on TV. (Game of Thrones, which I'm sure is the inspiration for this, is an exception because it's basically written as a TV show already.)