SF movies you'd like to see

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James Blish’s A Case of Conscience - I’ve always thought this would make an excellent play - the 2nd act is essentially an extended debate between the main characters.

Gene Wolfe’s Pirate Freedom. Well, anything Gene Wolfe has written.

Fritz Leiber’s Change War series or the Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser books.

Heinlein’s Tunnel In the Sky

Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
There’s a recent graphic novel adaptation that has Dr. Wilson’s full cooperation–including an essay where he described that 80s “disaster” (hard to find on VHS and apparently never made it to DVD)
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I know FPW hates it (he and Joe Lansdale did a “commentary track” on CD that you can play along with the movie that rips on it), but I maintain an odd affection for it. I thought Scott Glenn made a good Glaecken.
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
There’s a recent graphic novel adaptation that has Dr. Wilson’s full cooperation–including an essay where he described that 80s “disaster” (hard to find on VHS and apparently never made it to DVD)
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I have it in VHS. I don’t have a VHS player though. I’m probably lucky that way.
 
Beryllos said:
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Seconded. There’s actually a 3-act play adaptation that was published by the Samuel French Company that a Catholic high school near us performed in about 1974. I thought it was a pretty good adaptation for the stage,
 
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I am surprised that was never apparently made a movie. Back in the 1960s Heinlein was a pro military Republican who wrote a book the counter culture really got into.

It is one of my favorite book titles.
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Both David Bowie and Mick Jagger were attached to film adaptations back in the 1970s. Bowie of course did a great performance later as an alien in “The Man Who Fell To Earth.”

Charles Manson got heavily into the novel, borrowed aspects of the water-sharing ceremony, and named one of his children Valentine Michael Manson after the hero, Heinlein erected a big security fence around his property after he learned that.

It’s a pretty dated book and the theology is awful. He did a lot better work earlier.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Both David Bowie and Mick Jagger were attached to film adaptations back in the 1970s. Bowie of course did a great performance later as an alien in “The Man Who Fell To Earth.”

Charles Manson got heavily into the novel, borrowed aspects of the water-sharing ceremony, and named one of his children Valentine Michael Manson after the hero, Heinlein erected a big security fence around his property after he learned that.

It’s a pretty dated book and the theology is awful. He did a lot better work earlier.
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“Stranger in a Strange Land” also inaugurated a new phase in Heinlein’s writing which seemed almost Hugh Hefneresque and which challenged many people’s ‘ick’ tolerance.
 
John_Lazarus said:
No.

“The Celtic Christian Church welcomed its second bishop, Katherine Kurtz, who joined the Celtic Christian Church on November 6, 2001, already a consecrated bishop, she transferred from the Apostolic Catholic Orthodox Church, and presides over All Angels Jurisdiction. Bishop Katherine’s career as an author is combined with her spiritual ministry.”
celticchristianchurch.org/allangelsjurisdiction.htm
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Oops, I stand corrected. Thanks, John. I think I read that in some science fiction who’s who encyclopedia, and either they got it wrong, or I just didn’t bother trying to find out what the “Celtic Christian Church” is. Still though, Lammas Night would make an interesting World War Two movie. It’s a lot different than any other war novel or film I’ve seen. I think Hollywood would be able to make something really entertaining out of it, if a bit trashy and pulpy.
 
Joe Lansdale’s The Drive-In series might also come across well on the big screen. It’s pretty brainless, but it is funny. Maybe Bruce Campbell could somehow be cast in it. Or maybe he could direct it.
 
tomarin said:
“Stranger in a Strange Land” also inaugurated a new phase in Heinlein’s writing which seemed almost Hugh Hefneresque and which challenged many people’s ‘ick’ tolerance.
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Yeah, I didn’t like much he did after that except for Podkayne of Mars and* Glory Road.*

John C. Wright did a great (long) analysis of why Heinlein’s theological speculations in Stranger were so off-target: scifiwright.com/2013/02/mike-the-martian-and-the-attack-of-the-argumentroid/
 
Exiled_Child said:
Oops, I stand corrected. Thanks, John. I think I read that in some science fiction who’s who encyclopedia, and either they got it wrong, or I just didn’t bother trying to find out what the “Celtic Christian Church” is. Still though, Lammas Night would make an interesting World War Two movie. It’s a lot different than any other war novel or film I’ve seen. I think Hollywood would be able to make something really entertaining out of it, if a bit trashy and pulpy.
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You’re welcome. I really like(d) Kurtz’s novels, but I found the magic system seemed to evolve more and more away from Christianity to new-age High Magic.
 
“Pierced by a Sword” by Bud MacFarlane Jr.

The MacFarlane family is Catholic of course, though involved in controversy. That does not take away from the book.
 
“Lord of the World” by Robert Hugh Benson. It’s a great 1907 novel set in the future, incredibly accurate prediction of political movements that we see today.
 
“Lord of Light” by Roger Zelazny
“Doorways in the Sand” also by Zelazny
“This Immortal” by Zelazny

A fun series for comedy sci-fi movies based on the multi-verse theory would be the “Myth” series by Robert Asprin

“Foundation” Trilogy by Asimov (I know there were more in the series but they felt like-add ons)
 
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