Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett. They had a film adaptation in the works a few years ago, but it fell through.
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This is what I said but I'd want them to rework it some. Largely for far less rape.
Hyperion cantos. Ilium/Olympos. Lovecraft's dream cycle.
On one hand it's a risk that there would just be some terrible version that ruins all public things connected with the name, but on the other hand there could be something fantastic.
I guess sandman is already off the list. Haven't seen the results though.
Another big risk in adaptations is that, like Peter Jackson's Lott, it will make it very unlikely that someone else would come up and do it better after a big enough attempt.
I'll come clean and say I haven't read Sandman (yet) but I thought the show was really damn good. I've seen a lot of readers and critics praising it too. It's definitely worth cheking out.
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Hyperion cantos
Also my top choice. One of the best scifi series I've ever read, I enjoy reading very much but it's rare that a book gives me such an emotional response. Apart from this it's only been 'The Kite Runner'... not scifi, a very very VERY sad, moving book about a boy in Afghanistan.
Barrayar. Giant SciFi world, tons of cool characters, politics, action, romance and intrigue. All in all it probably would make for a pretty great series.
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Joe Abercrombie -- First Law Trilogy
Stephen R Donaldson -- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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Red Rising would be a phenomenal TV show.
Mistborn and Stormlight Archive from Sanderson would also be incredible.
The entire Sprawl trilogy. But if only one was to be made, I'd love to see Count Zero on the big screen as that one had the most action and visually appealing scenes to adapt.
But I also agree with Dragonriders of Pern! I loved those books when I was in high school.
Hyperion cantos
Cosmere - Mistborn, Stomlight Archives, etc...
The polity series would be really cool. It's a great universe with lots of options for storytelling (which the diversity of the books demonstrates). Starting with prador moon and then following the war with the prador for a while would be amazing to see.
If I had another choice I'd pick the Children of Time series.
so it’d need careful handling of things like Lessa and F’lar’s relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.
I read the original two trilogies in the 80s so I've forgotten some bits, but what were the things that would be problematic today? I don't think I remember any details relating to the above. Lessa is always one of the first people I think of when someone says "so and so was the first strong woman in scifi" and it's a character that came 30+ years later.
I only just read the Amber books a couple of years ago myself; I don't know how I'd missed them. Very much unique stories in my experience, really unlike anything else I've ever read. I did enjoy them, but I think I respected what he did as a storyteller more than I enjoyed them, if that makes any sense.
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the wandering inn. absolutely no way a movie would do it justice though
The Murderbot Diaries
I feel like the Destroyermen series would fit a tv show format pretty well.
World War Z. It needs to be adapted as an HBO limited series.
The movie made me so fucking mad when I saw it. Nothing like the book whatsoever grrrrr.
A Canticle for Lebowitz would be AMAZING!!
The uplift war by David Brin
I just finished the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, and that would work great as a gangster/martial arts show.
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The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.
Technically a book series, warhammer 40k. It's being made too and I'm as excited as I'm afraid.