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Author: | bobbdobbs [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:06 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Author: | timark_uk [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:35 pm ] |
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I've been pondering this list for some time. Simon Aughton (smithsocksimon) pointed me towards it and it's bloody hard to say which of these is 'best'. Mark |
Author: | Paul1965 [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:52 pm ] |
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Hmmm....Stainless Steel Rat, I'd say. I read the E.E.' Doc' Smith books when I was at school (initially because of the Foss cover art) but they'd be too childish for modern audiences. Having said that... ![]() The two Alfred Bester books would possibly work well too. I agree with the comment that Robo-Hunter could make a good movie, as could Halo Jones. Many of the others I simply haven't read. |
Author: | bobbdobbs [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:04 pm ] |
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The Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny for me. I love that set of books, I even played the roleplaying game. ![]() |
Author: | hifidelity2 [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:31 pm ] |
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Quite a few there but I will plump for Nights Dawn by Peter F Hamilton Loved the books |
Author: | PaulKey [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:44 pm ] |
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Now isn't that a coincidence..... Just this last week in the glorious sunshine we have had I (re)read both Tiger Tiger and The Demolished Man. Now I have to dig out my 35 yr old copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz and that will do me nicely for the coming long weekend ![]() I might also just get round to replacing at last my (soon to be) 9 yr old Evesham pc !! |
Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:23 pm ] |
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Confused Best SCi-FI movie never made Aren't they books?? |
Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:45 pm ] | |||||||||
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That's the point. Many sci-fi movies already made have been based on books, so this list is the books that have not yet been made into movies. I think... ![]() |
Author: | belchingmatt [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:03 pm ] |
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Title read fail. Never with an N! It's alright, I did the same. ![]() ![]() |
Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:11 pm ] | |||||||||
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I think the most awesomest sci-fi movie never made is this:
As found here: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=10889&p=161322&hilit=writes#p161212 Quite why Spielberg, Jackson, Cameron or any of the rest haven’t dropped me a line about this yet is beyond me. I’d even entertain it being a Dr Who episode at this point, I’ve been waiting that long. |
Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:25 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ahhh thank you lol |
Author: | belchingmatt [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:33 pm ] |
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Having had a look through the list I voted for Night's Dawn by Peter Hamilton. That was an easy choice for me but there are still a few names there that deserve a feature film; Niven, Heinlein and Banks for starters. Another good thing is that it has brought to my attention a series of books that I have not read and can probably assume from being on the list that they are worthy. One major concern is that the story could well be ruined. Night's Dawn is so big that only something on the scale of Jackson's LOTR could do it justice. |
Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:37 pm ] |
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Asimov's Foundation trilogy would be difficult to make into a film, I think. The story arc covers seven books, and at least three different periods in history over several tens of thousands of years. To make it fit a movie format would inevitably involve a major compromise or several. That said, Foundation was dramatised by BBC Radio back in the late 1970s. Let us not forget that Lord of the Rings was always deemed to be unfilmable, and that more or less worked out okay (though the story arc in LotR is much shorter by comparison). Personally, I'd love to see Foundation as a film, but as it hasn't happened yet I doubt it will happen at all. (I've only read three of the books, and that was complex enough!) |
Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:22 pm ] |
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The work 'puter flagged this thread as obscene and offensive. I guess it's the mention of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. Anyway, best Sci-Fi movie never made? Firefly Season 2. Or 3, depending if you count Serenity (which I don't) dee-yadda-di-yada. </jonbwfc's law> |
Author: | pcernie [ Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:20 pm ] |
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I've never read any of those ![]() |
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