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The movie covered some parts well, and the vision was more or less there, but I still left the cinema annoyed. One movie isn't long enough to cover the book, and there's enough content in the books to make many series without having to pad episodes out.
Gray-Death-Trilogy by William H. Keith, Jr. (Subset of the Battletech Series)
That should be the ultimate criteria, is hard to translate right a deep argument to TV (and sometimes the translation includes "sponsored message" from government and groups of power that damages the book message), but books with good visuals may be perfect for that media (and if are not great, run low risk of corruption)
Would hate that great books like Hyperion end having the same fate as All you zombies or Mimsy were the borogoves.
If successful, they could make additional seasons of the subsequent books.
There's a whole bunch of mentioned events that are not explored in the books and short stories so far. I guess some of them are even filmable. Chasm City or the Glitter Band would also be an interesting setting to borrow for a series.
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> 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.