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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Could be a fun mini series to adapt. The video game never grabbed me though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fritz Leiber's short story "A Pail of Air".

This story portrays the effects of the most terrifying natural calamity I have ever encountered in fiction: Earth being ejected from the solar system. In any other disaster there's still hope because even though humanity might die out, life on Earth would eventually recover. Not so in this case. Without the Sun we're fucked. Even the air freezes (hence the title).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Discworld work make an incredible series of movies. I think D&D Honor Amongst Theives proves that modern comedy fantasies can work great in a movie format.

My other choice would be House of the Scorpion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Karsa Orlong would say: Witness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Deserves? Not sure, but I feel like Gideon will get one. It seems pretty popular.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Transmetropolitan

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Damsel.

When I heard about the Netflix movie I initially thought it was an adaptation of the book...

At this point, I want a movie adaptation just out of spite to see how much better it would be than the complete trash that netflix thought would make a good original story. I do highly recommend the book, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Low Town and its sequels, especially She Who Waits. They're by Daniel Polansky and not my typical reads but dang were they good.

Random Acts Of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack.

From comic books, Bitch Planet and Archer And Armstrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

A book called The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Repairman Jack. But reserve the supernatural stuff at the end of the seasons. I just want to watch his "repairs"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Stranger in a strange land

For the chaos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah yes

Euphoria but written by the guy who told the kids in Euphoria to get off his lawn when they were 10

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The Grand Tour novels from Ben Bova. All about mankinds spread into the solar system. There are some anachronisms here and there that would need to be ironed out, and plenty of continuity errors to fix, but overall a very exciting series of stories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins. I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman would be the perfect protagonist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The Megastructure Compendium as an Anthology about life around these massive feats of engineering.

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