The web serial "Worm" would make an amazing TV series.
Ask HN: Which SciFi novel(s) would you want made into a TV series?
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#12Snow 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 F…
> Even better option: a port of Turtledove's World War alternate history.
That's something I'd love to see.
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#13Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
I came here to post this.
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#14The Bible?
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#15The Bible?
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#16Altered 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 Circums…
I'd like to see the Culture's orbitals, drones, etc in a series. The Idiran war from 'Consider Phlebas' would be a rich vein to mine.
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#17The first two Commonwealth novels by Peter F. Hamilton (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained) would be an very amenable to TV if it wasn't for the required length I think.
It has a enough different plot-lines to interest many different audiences I think.
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#18The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
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#19Snow 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 F…
> Even better option: a port of Turtledove's World War alternate history. That's something I'd love to see.
Good lord, if it was a mini-series, with the kind of production values of Michael Shara's Gettysburg? Where can I sign up to give over my money?
Especially since there is a remarkable lack of WWI era movies after Paths of Glory that were anything like decent.
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#20Honor harrington series, i really enjoyed that. Im not sure how well they would go at turning it into a tv series though.
I have the feeling it would be better as a high quality animated series.