Ask Lemmy

Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series.

• Red Rising would be unreal
• Anything Sanderson would be nice. Especially his fantasy stuff but his Cytonic series would be good.
• The First Law Trilogy
• Codex Alera
• If Rothfuss wilould finish the friggin trilogy King killer Chronicles would be good

A real adaptation of the Foundation Series. Not the abomination we are getting from Apple.

Hyperion cantos

Joe Abercrombie's 'First Law.'

The Quantum Thief trilogy. Mainly because part of it takes place in Oubliette, a city whose buildings, plazas and monuments are carried across the surface of Mars by giant robots. That ought to be quite a spectacle.

Old mans war. Come on they take OAP and turn them into super fighting soldiers to fight a whole galaxy of different races. We literally could have Morgan Freeman and Arnold err the terminator smashing aliens.

World War Z. It needs to be adapted as an HBO limited series.

Barrayar. Giant SciFi world, tons of cool characters, politics, action, romance and intrigue. All in all it probably would make for a pretty great series.

Ann Leckie's Ancillary series would make a fantastic space epic, if handled properly.

Joe Abercrombie -- First Law Trilogy
Stephen R Donaldson -- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Hyperion cantos. Ilium/Olympos. Lovecraft's dream cycle.

On one hand it's a risk that there would just be some terrible version that ruins all public things connected with the name, but on the other hand there could be something fantastic.

I guess sandman is already off the list. Haven't seen the results though.

Another big risk in adaptations is that, like Peter Jackson's Lott, it will make it very unlikely that someone else would come up and do it better after a big enough attempt.

Red Rising would be a phenomenal TV show.

Mistborn and Stormlight Archive from Sanderson would also be incredible.

The Expeditionary Force series! I loved the series and listened to the whole thing on audible! The great thing is, R.C. Bray could still voice one of the key characters who makes the whole series fun and addicting!

Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett. They had a film adaptation in the works a few years ago, but it fell through.

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks!

Cosmere - Mistborn, Stomlight Archives, etc...

the wandering inn. absolutely no way a movie would do it justice though

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

A Canticle for Lebowitz would be AMAZING!!

so it’d need careful handling of things like Lessa and F’lar’s relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.

I read the original two trilogies in the 80s so I've forgotten some bits, but what were the things that would be problematic today? I don't think I remember any details relating to the above. Lessa is always one of the first people I think of when someone says "so and so was the first strong woman in scifi" and it's a character that came 30+ years later.

I only just read the Amber books a couple of years ago myself; I don't know how I'd missed them. Very much unique stories in my experience, really unlike anything else I've ever read. I did enjoy them, but I think I respected what he did as a storyteller more than I enjoyed them, if that makes any sense.

The entire Sprawl trilogy. But if only one was to be made, I'd love to see Count Zero on the big screen as that one had the most action and visually appealing scenes to adapt.

But I also agree with Dragonriders of Pern! I loved those books when I was in high school.

The Murderbot Diaries

Just started it but Deathworlders would be very cool.