Science Fiction Novels

[AKKuya]

Science fiction stories have many different sub types to choose from.  I enjoy the hard core science novels that take place in the future of mankind where space travel is commonplace.  As a kid, I read lots of books from the library and many titles escape the memory over the years.  As time went by, it was much easier reading the Star Trek and Star Wars novels due to knowing the characters and the individual fictional universes of them.

Many of the stories I read were turned into films and the books were so much better.  With the books makes the reader imagine what the author is writing about.  Films come along and change the format.

Keep submitting the novels.  Let's see how many can be brought to others notice.

[jimson]

I remember a short story

Houston, Houston, do you read?

James Tiptree

Three astronauts somehow time warp into a future where men are extinct.

They get rescued by a ship crewed entirely of women.

One of the guys is saying stuff like "Hot Damn, I'll make em line up for my stiff steel, I'll have hot buttered boobies and strawberries and c**t for breakfast"

It doesn't work out so well for them in the end.

[Saxman]

  You don't say....  They got Diamond Age, though.  Who knows how that'll turn out.  They've got the contract and Stephenson is working with Clooney for the TV-compatible rewrite.

SciFi has been on a downward spiral ever since they decided paranormal "reality" TV and god-awful ripoffs of movies that were god-awful to begin with (seriously, how many remakes and SEQUELS to remakes of Anaconda do we REALLY need?!) were a better programming decision than FarScape.

[moot]

And GvsE, and Lexx...

[Saxman]

And GvsE, and Lexx...

I-Man ruled.

[ink]

the best Sci-fi book I have read was "Battlefield Earth"   L Ron Hubbard.
horrible move.

besides,sword/sorcery/ Fantasy is way more to my liking.

"Wishsong of Shannara" by Terri Brooks would be an awesome move.

[BnZs]

"Footfall" by Larry Niven.

I'm almost certain elements of this book were ripped off in the movies "Independence Day" AND "The Postman" though. 

[maddafinga]

I think A Gift From Earth by Larry Niven would make a really outstanding movie.  Great plot, and doable to boot.   I know Moot mentioned Snow Crash and the Diamond Age, both of which were really excellent also, and could make great movies.  

I have always been a huge Phillip K Dick fan also, and have been horrified to see how badly his books and short stories have been butchered by Hollywood.  With the exception of A Scanner Darkly, which was excellent and follow the book pretty well, and Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) which was slaughtered and flawed, but still an excellent movie, all of the movies made of his stuff has been pretty crappy and far from the ideas behind his works.  

I think Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card would make as great a movie as it is a book also!  It might be hard to get enough kids to pull off the level of acting that it would require though.    

There are tons more, SciFi is some of the most creative storytelling going when it's at its best.  

[maddafinga]

"Footfall" by Larry Niven.

I'm almost certain elements of this book were ripped off in the movies "Independence Day" AND "The Postman" though. 

Yeah, that was a good one too, I love Niven, he's one of the best going.  Excellent short stories also in the known space universe too.  Good call man!

[moot]

I think Ender's is in the works.  Yep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game#Film

[maddafinga]

I think Ender's is in the works.  Yep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game#Film

Sweet!  I didn't know about that, thanks.  I wonder if they're going to do Speaker for the Dead afterwards.

[moot]

Given Hollywood's habit of making trilogies, it'd prolly have to bomb for them not to.

[minke]

I have over 250 scifi books from the whole spectrum of authors. Weirdly my favourite series has always been L Ron Hubbards Mission Earth decology. Awesome read.

[Lye-El]

I'd like to see Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" turned into a movie, but i suspect they'd ruin it. I mean look what they did to Andre Nortons "The beast master", no where near what the book was about.

I have 35 of Andre Nortons novels on my book shelf and 7 of Anne McCaffreys. And you are probably right that they would ruin any of them. With "The Beast Master" they took the name and left everything else. From an American Indian to blond white guy. From a space faring future to a medieval past. I didn't even know that it was supposed to be based on the book until I read about it later.

[bj229r]

I guess Michael Crichton falls into this category--in particular, "Timeline"---a new twist on time travel, one of the most riveting books I've read in a long time, movie paid poor homage to this book