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Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:10 am

Not SF as such, but Clive Barker wrote a book called Weaveworld, and I think it'd make a good film.

zep777 · Post by **zep777** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:22 am

.. and the amber series. Vurt would be really cool too.

gnu23 · Post by **gnu23** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:31 am

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:48 am

Lets see... not all of them are sf but...
Angels and Demons
Deception Point
The Giver

to name a few.

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:48 am

whyterabbyt wrote:ew quoth Camp Concentration(maybe my favorite Philip Dick book)

Pity it was written by some else then...

Thomas Disch, btw.

Exactly! Nice to see someone remembering Tom Disch!

Also nice to see so many votes for Alfred Bester....

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:03 am

whyterabbyt wrote:woolyloach quoth

The Stars My Destination would be pretty good as well, didn't know anyone but me ever read it.

I know it as "Tiger, Tiger" and in the past 25-odd years I must have read it over fifty times....

Something amazing about that book for some of us here! I've read it dozens of times, far more times than any other book I can think of, even more than K&R.

Interesting comment on KVR ... the people here are weird ... in a way I like. Feels like home.

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:24 am

Oh another one...

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

I just finished this book and thought it would make an excellent film. It is like some story out of the Twilight Zone.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:34 am

i believe Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man is being made into a film (just in case no-one's already mentioned it). i tend to prefer what used to be known as hard science fiction, but some noteable exceptions:

William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. More fantasy with horror and... well very difficult to describe really but he manages to encompass the whole of the universe in this slim book. Very atmospheric, try and find a copy from this 'lost' gem of an author.

M. John Harrison's short story Settling the World from the collection The Ice Monkey, where God is found on the dark side of the moon (again very atmospheric piece).

A proper Victorian version of H. G. Well's The War of the Worlds would be nice.

D. G. Compton's Ascendencies.

Something by Ian Watson (could be tough though)

Something by Barry N. Malzberg, perhaps Beyond Apollo, very disturbing, claustrophobic psychological-crazed stuff (well like all Malzberg's stuff then!).

Mr A

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:20 am

zep777 wrote: .. and the amber series.

I was going to suggest this one, but only because I love the books so much. On closer scrutiny, I had to admit that it might not make such a smashing movie.

Greg

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:47 am

The trouble is that most novels contain way too much to fit into a film. The best film adaptations come from short stories - Bladerunner, Screamers, A.I., Total Recall, etc. There are so many great sohrt stories by almost anyone I can think of that it would be impossible to say but one Arthur C. Clarke story sticks in my mind. It's about an astronaut who has a problem blasting off from the moon and gets into a decaying orbit which makes rescuing him before he slams into a mountain a risky proposition. It's a simple, suspenseful story that would make a cracker of a flick.

Some short novels that would be good are Bob Shaw's Terminal Velocity or Orbitsville [much better than Ringworld] or Brian Aldiss' Superstate or more of J.G. Ballard's work lioke the Crystal World or the Drought. Maybe one of Iain M. Banks' Culture short stories, some of them are awesome. I'd also love to see Christopher Hinz's Liege Killer made into a film but I think they'd have to skip a lot of the gorgeous detail to get it done.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:43 am

Dont know why but BONES post just reminded me of something else. Mick Farren's DNA Cowboys series. I think they could be made to work quite well, as long as nobody goes 'Postman' on them...

Trojan Badger · Post by **Trojan Badger** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:57 am

Yes, agree with that short story thing. There was a great short story I studied at school called "The Ruum", which was really visual in its writing, which almost created itself as a movie. That would work really well...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:53 am

blaster78 wrote:
dreibel wrote:And the soundtrack - which included songs by The Band With Rocks In as mentioned in the novel - smoked! I'd LOVE to get my hands on the accompanying soundtrack CD, I know it exists....
just been reading that, if you ever find it can you let me know ?

one, two, one, two, three, four Whauauauaummmmmm-eeeee-gngngn.

cheers,

steve.

im sure ive seen it at smiths?
also try hmv

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:55 am

Mo Verdigast wrote:I've read it dozens of times, far more times than any other book I can think of, even more than K&R.

Kernighan and Ritchie?

blaster78 · Post by **blaster78** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:26 pm

vurt wrote:
blaster78 wrote:
dreibel wrote:And the soundtrack - which included songs by The Band With Rocks In as mentioned in the novel - smoked! I'd LOVE to get my hands on the accompanying soundtrack CD, I know it exists....
just been reading that, if you ever find it can you let me know ?

one, two, one, two, three, four Whauauauaummmmmm-eeeee-gngngn.

cheers,

steve.
im sure ive seen it at smiths?
also try hmv

brilliant, i'd never realised it was it was available anymore.... it was available on amazon but it's been discontinued, i'll have to have a look next time i'm in town.

cheers,

steve.

what books are you waiting for to be in turned into SF-films