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HowMany ,

The “titan” series by John Varley. A good trilogy. Also a good five year series could be had with “ringworld” by Niven - the ongoing adventures that could feature six months of gathering the players and explaining their mission(s).

IF they’re done right, of course.

mindbleach ,

Consider starting Ringworld on the Ringworld. Louis recounting the story so far to some fascinated locals, as a framing device. Presumably in that village where he fucks a catgirl. A lot of the first book is kinda Lord Of The Rings for a different kind of ultranerd: they have to go from point A to point Z Z Plural Z Alpha, unfathomably far away, whilst dealing with obstacles that are occasionally hostile and universally just weird.

You still get the long scenes of Louis Wu’s 200th birthday party walking its way around the globe, and Nessus being so racist that eight-foot-tall murdercats feel the need to apologize. You still get the landing, such as it is, with Teela casually weaving through a minefield of molten glass. That’s just not tension, per se, because we already know they get to the Ringworld. It’s in the title. The question is, how will they ever leave? I think you can even keep the phwoar factor present when describing the ship, so long as that comes before showing the arrival. Otherwise the long list of cool shit that doesn’t matter is more of a joke.

HowMany ,

Nice!

mindbleach ,

Some time after writing that I realized Ringworld and LOTR are both about dragging an artifact up a mountain to drop it in.

HowMany ,

That’s funny! Good observation!

WanderingCrow ,

That Titan trilogy is such a trip, I’d watch that for sure, just to see if they fully went for it.

jaicon ,

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

AxelNanol ,

Came here for this comment, wasn’t disappointed.

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

Maybe? It’s been decades since I read it, but I remember enjoying Hyperion and fucking hating Fall of Hyperion. It felt like Hyperion was amazing and well thought ought but then Fall was just mailed in.

jaicon ,

Because Fall rushed the story with a fuck ton of plotlines. It really should have focused on continuing the story and have a third book conclude the major plotlines. That way a lot of things that happened wouldn’t feel like they were pulled out of left field.

zwaetschgeraeuber ,

bobiverse by dennis e taylor

aslongasilikeit ,

I really don’t know about this one. I love the books, and with their success they’ve genome a bit more compatible with a screen adaptation, but a lot of it, and especially the first one, is a lot of internal monologue. In addition, the space physics and combat are amazing, but don’t translate into visuals easily either. Like I said, love the story, and pains me to say it. Some stories are just not made for the screen, and I think this is one.

Pons_Aelius ,

The Culture series by Iain M Banks.

Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession...) into a visual story.

Encromion ,

They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!

Lophostemon ,

I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banks’ work, I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

los_chill ,

I’m kinda in this boat too. I’m glad Banks’ estate didn’t let the Amazon series go through. Something about a guy like Bezos hailing the books while being a billionaire capitalist egomaniac just makes me uneasy with the whole idea.

PsychedSy ,

Post-scarcity communism is fine. I’d actually consider the culture just lib, not even left or right. It’s a totally voluntary society. Except maybe for some special circumstances.

Pons_Aelius ,

Post-scarcity communism is fine.

Post scarcity makes labels like communism/capitalism meaningless. They are both systems to deal with the scarcity of resources.

One of the best lines in Bank's work to describe this is from LTW:

"Money is a sign of poverty"

Ie: A society that needs money to apportion scarce resources is always poor as there is never enough to go around.

PsychedSy ,

It certainly has shaped my own ethics and ideas.

Pons_Aelius ,

I understand your point but feel it is a bit selfish.

I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans.

But it would also create a lot more Culture fans. Just as the LOTR movies got a huge number of people to read Tolkien.

I would love to see more people read Banks.

I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

If they are ever adapted no one is going to force you to watch and you can reread them when ever you want.

CybranM ,

Totally agree with you, many people said the same about Lord of the rings before Peter Jackson made an amazing adaptation. That doesn’t mean every adaptation is good, far from it, but that shouldn’t stop people from trying.

Cheradenine ,

My first thought. Though you could do Use of Weapons, Inversions, and The State of the Art. The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn, The Player of Games, could all be their own trilogy. Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail etc.

Hackerman_uwu ,

I always thought the drone scenes would be so interesting on film like a mix between bullet time and 10000fps. Also weird storytelling seeing the other scenes pop up in drone time.

sylphio ,

The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

MrScottyTay ,

GONE, really enjoyed that as a kid and when they then started making hunger game movies and everyone seemed to be following the formula I think it would’ve worked a treat around that time. It’s not that similar to those however it’s more supernatural mystery lord of the flies, but it would’ve felt like it belonged alongside the lines of hunger games and maze runner.

On another note the Jack Tanner books, especially Odin Mission would make great films or short series per book. Really enjoyed the pseudo retelling of world war 2 with bits of fiction mixed in.

EnderMB ,

Ender’s Game.

Hate the author, love the series. I’ve never been more angry with a movie, and a TV series with someone that’s actually read the books BUT has also largely disassociated from OSC would go a long way towards repairing things.

Kcryptonian ,

The Webnovel “Mother of Learning” It has four arcs. Each arc is long enough to be made into two seasons, each containing 8 episodes.

ThaijsClan ,

Pretty much any Brandon Sanderson book series. Mistborn, Steelheart, Way of King’s, Skyward… Etc

dmegatool ,
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*Stormlight Archives

I was gonna say that… Even if I just read Way Of Kings yet. It’s so good. Really liked it.

I’m currently entering “The slump” in Wheel of time. Can’t wait to get to Brandon books.

Sanity_in_Moderation ,

Wot-encyclopedia.com it has excellent chapter summaries for the slog books.

TheFonz ,

Not a book, but I would love to see a cinematic adaptation of “East of West”. The universe is beautifully drawn.

rando ,

Angry ghosts

JareeZy ,

The Gentlemen Bastards series could work well: Not too much CGI needed, and fancy rennaisance italy aesthetics deserve a fantasy show about thieving orphans!

kromem ,

Ender’s Game as season 1, and then Speaker For the Dead as seasons 2-3 (with a reworked ending rather than drawing from Xenocide).

Karlos_Cantana ,
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Encyclopedia Brown

CoggyMcFee ,

They actually did make a TV show of it in the late 80s. Not that it couldn’t be done better today!

Karlos_Cantana ,
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Holy crap! I didn’t know that. Now I have to start searching for it.

CoggyMcFee ,

It was on HBO, so it’s understandable if you missed it at the time

Karlos_Cantana ,
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Yeah, we didn’t have cable in the 80s because there was no cable where we lived.

rothaine ,

Ummmmmm where can I watch this?!

CoggyMcFee ,

There are some episodes on YouTube

Donebrach ,
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The Witcher but they actually follow the source material.

BellaDonna ,

It does exist actually, it’s just Polish media.

Donebrach ,
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Not really, what you’re referencing is like a half-remembered retelling of a few of the stories from The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny.

kratoz29 ,

I have only played The Witcher 3 and its DLCs and watched The Netflix show up until S02, so far I like it (especially the game).

I’m slowly introducing in the books/reading field, and just started with classics like Dracula (so far liking it) are the books of The Witcher stand on their own as a good entry point for my “current phase”?

aubertlone ,

yes

Donebrach ,
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I also had only played the witcher III when I started the books. The games are all set after the events of the witcher saga (books), and are honestly just really really good fan fiction based on the characters (like, really the best fan fiction you could think of), so you can feel free to just read the books.

If you’re not a big reader (if I understand the note about dracula correctly) the witcher audio books are really well done, and the stories lend themselves very well to being listened to.

Finally, I could write a treatise on the failures of the netflix show, but it would all be old news—about 10% of the show is accurate to the stories told in the text (and the text is so much better), the rest is a bunch of made-up nonsense that serves nothing other than to muddy the narrative.

In short, yes, read the books (also why do people need to ask advice about reading books these days. just read books).

kratoz29 ,

Thank you for the explanation! If they are a prequel of The Witcher III then that’ll make it better for me!

(also why do people need to ask advice about reading books these days. just read books).

About this, well, there is a reason why book communities exist right? I am not asking for validation in this matter but definitely like to hear all opinions and personal experience before setting off on this kind of time consuming activity.

Donebrach , (edited )
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I will only say this: reading a book takes no more time than it does to read a bunch of bullshit on the internet. Why would one need to consult with people prior to opening a book and reading 5, 10 or, 500 pages? I would argue that opening a book and reading it first is better than asking for peoples’ opinion and permission prior to reading anything.

To paraphrase Kamina: “Don’t believe in the text, believe in the text that believes in you!”

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