Jhereg series by Steven Brust
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The Gaunt's Ghosts Warhammer 40,000 stories.
If I were allowed some creative direction, I would specify that unless it was there in the source material there will be zero scenes of people just explaining shit instead of showing it
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.
I would watch a well made series based on the Parker novels by Richard Stark.
The Webnovel "Mother of Learning" It has four arcs. Each arc is long enough to be made into two seasons, each containing 8 episodes.
Dragonlance is a good one.
- Wheel of Time
- Mistborn
- The Uplift Saga
- The Alex Benedict Series
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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.
That Titan trilogy is such a trip, I'd watch that for sure, just to see if they fully went for it.
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.
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This happened for me with wheel of Time. Be careful what you wish for.
I'd love the Wayfarer's series to be a collection of short TV shows. They could do like 6 hour long episodes per book. It would great
Its not a series, just a standalone book but I would love to see a stop motion movie of the magnum opus. It's a book that was written by the makers of a stop motion short called the maker. I would love to see what they could do with a proper budget
https://youtu.be/YDXOioU_OKM?feature=shared here's the short that inspired the book
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The Gentlemen Bastards series could work well: Not too much CGI needed, and fancy rennaisance italy aesthetics deserve a fantasy show about thieving orphans!
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).
Angry ghosts
Not a book, but I would love to see a cinematic adaptation of "East of West". The universe is beautifully drawn.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.
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.
bobiverse by dennis e taylor
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.