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JoonasTo:
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datora:
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--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on October 21, 2010, 02:08:04 PM ---Uhhh, this is shocking... neither of you mentioned two of the greatest sci-fi novels to date?



Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Nuff said.
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Awe ... c'mon, man.  I already wrote the post that killed Kenny!  I'll jump in with some more .. just wanted to see if other folks found this a cool topic to comment in.

Love me lots of Alan Dean Foster.  The Unreasoning Mask would make a mind blowing movie, the entire World of Tiers and Riverworld sets of novels are chock-full of action and other fun.  I started out reaching for some real cerebral and obscure stuff.  Had anime like Technotise and Ghost in the Shell, or the original Russian movie version of Solyaris by Tarkovsky (sort of makes 2001: A Space Odyssey look like an action flick) in mind.

+1 on Zelazny, Integral Trees, and Faded Sun (also add Wave Without a Shore).

Orson Scott Card is a very worthy author for potential anime.  Of course Ender's Game would be amazing; I felt the second novel was a poor follow-up, but the third (Xenophobia, I think ..?) was quite worthy.  I stopped reading a lot of books about the time that was published, so never followed up on the ones after that.

Also note that my lists will, therefore, be heavily weighted toward older sci fi from that era and before.  Just don't have much time for it these days, and my eyes are so shit now that reading paperback novels has become a chore.

Cool mention of Jack London (like, THE Jack London of the turn of the century?).  Because, it makes me wanna make a steampunkish thread like this and talk all about Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...  :D ;)

But, staying with more obscure sci fi, one of my favs is The Overman Culture by Edmund Cooper.  Sort of a Logan's Run style story.  And, Logan's Run, of course, could be a stunning anime ...

rostheferret:

--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on October 21, 2010, 02:08:04 PM ---Uhhh, this is shocking... neither of you mentioned two of the greatest sci-fi novels to date?

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Nuff said.

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Actually, I can see the other three in both series' making better anime, particularly the "Shadow" series. Sort of an "Epic Sci-Fi Black Lagoon." I know they were once intending to make an Ender's Game film, and I was outraged at the idea. The dude from "Poseiden Adventure" was set to direct. It was gonna be turned into an Action film, until Card stepped in and told them where they could shove it. \o/

I'm actually reading "A Mote in God's Eye" and was thinking, this would make for a great mini-series. It's a story chronicling the first contact with an alien race, but I guess I envisage it as more of a "Guillermo Del Toro" type project, with a touch of Star Trek:TOS thrown in.

tomoya-kun:
all you need is KILL would be great, that is one of my favourite books of all time. 

virionspiral:

--- Quote from: datora on October 21, 2010, 05:14:29 PM ---

Cool mention of Jack London (like, THE Jack London of the turn of the century?).  Because, it makes me wanna make a steampunkish thread like this and talk all about Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...  :D ;)

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Yes that Jack London.  One of my favorite authors.  He didn't write much hard sci-fi but his book 'the iron heel' was later ripped off by '1984'.

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