Four words: the Harlock Saga OVA. Well, sort of. (It takes itself much too seriously, but any excuse to set a space battle to Ride of the Valkyries is a good one.)arbivark wrote:not exactly scifi, but wagner's ring cycle as an anime or movie (without the singing).
Science Fiction books you would like to see as anime?
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"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
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Mortal Engines Quartet.
More epic Steampunk animes plz
More epic Steampunk animes plz
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Altercator wrote:House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
A forbidden love story between two clones or "shatterlings?" How could they not resist?
If you had some really good scenery, it just might work. Especially Neume and the sky over the Centaurs' world
Hesperus in anime form, though? I'm having trouble picturing it. Depends on the style, I suppose
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I for one would enjoy an anime presentation of Lost Girls.
What? It counts as art.
What? It counts as art.
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But I don't think it counts as Sci-Fi.
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Yeah, but there were plenty of fantasy books in the thread, so I felt justified.
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I would like to see a series made up of One-shots of short-stories of Phillip K. Dick His style would make a very surreal series.
That, and I would definitely want to see Foundation. Time-skips ahoy! but seriously, done right it would be beautiful and epic.
That, and I would definitely want to see Foundation. Time-skips ahoy! but seriously, done right it would be beautiful and epic.
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Can 1984 count? It seems to have a steampunk universe.
I would mainly watch it for the room 101 scene.
I would mainly watch it for the room 101 scene.
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A Wrinkle in Time, maybe. There's lots of trippy imagery in it.
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nsmjohn wrote:The Nights Dawn Trilogy
Very this. I think the Commonwealth Saga could be pretty awesome as an anime too. And I'll add my vote to Snow Crash - that's just too perfect.
arbivark wrote:not exactly scifi, but wagner's ring cycle as an anime or movie (without the singing).
The Gap cycle by Stephen R Donaldson? That could work...
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Adacore wrote:nsmjohn wrote:The Nights Dawn Trilogy
Very this. I think the Commonwealth Saga could be pretty awesome as an anime too.
Seconding both of those.
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Internetmeme wrote:Can 1984 count? It seems to have a steampunk universe.
I would mainly watch it for the room 101 scene.
That would be quite interesting.
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OmegaLord wrote:electronic mily wrote:Rinsaikeru wrote:Not sci fi, but I'd like to see Garth Nix's Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen &c animated. Maybe--depends whether it'd get wrecked up or not.
I really enjoyed those novels.
I so want to see these as movies. But good movies. Like ones for big people, not kids. There are so many ways that they could do it very, very wrong.
I was always a little surprised that they sold those books at our middle-school bookfair, considering the death and destruction and severed hands and stuff. Then again, I bought them there, so they did have an audience.
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I had a thought a while ago, which was that the people who made Avatar the last Airbender (cartoon, not really an anime tho') should make an adaptation of the Abhorsen series. Actually, it would be cooler if those people got together and made something new.
I'm sort of confused when people say things like "war and death = definitely not for kids". Do you not remember being a kid? (Someone on TV tropes had that idea about the Redwall series, I was outgrowing them by age 11)
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Planet of Adventure ~ Jack Vance
This is awesome pulp adventure, as the name suggests.
I could think of a few other things (mostly French comics), but I am sure they would fuck them up.
This is awesome pulp adventure, as the name suggests.
I could think of a few other things (mostly French comics), but I am sure they would fuck them up.
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4 Seasons of Hyperion Cantos. Oh Yeah.
Or Illium/Olympos from the same guy (Dan Simmons).
Or Illium/Olympos from the same guy (Dan Simmons).
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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I failed to find an English reference, but it would seem there's a 2002 movie.
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Accelerando? It already has a talking cat (and magnificent bastard) in it called "Aineko".
And the Foundation series. Oh God yes.
And the Foundation series. Oh God yes.

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Dune. They just recently canceled the live-action film that had been due this following year, and this novel really needs a film adaptation that just goes animated instead of trying to stretch the budget through the special-effects work necessary.
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It's not as well known as some, but The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley would be perfect for anime. Colorblind aliens, a young man thrust into a life-or-death situation, and a whole-body cosmetic job.
Also, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
Also, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
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Cleverbeans wrote:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
That's an interesting one, but this would have to be done by the creators of Eve no Jikan because Jules Verne is a similar kind of "anti-globalization visionary".
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No, seriously. It would be hilarious.
Man, I ROFLed IRL on that one

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Kazuke wrote:Mortal Engines Quartet.
More epic Steampunk animes plz
I second this.
Also, I'd be curious to see what could be done with Ilium by Dan Simmons...
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Thirding Mortal Engines. Oh gawd. Oh Gawd.
Though they'd probably make Hester far too cute.
Though they'd probably make Hester far too cute.
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SlyReaper wrote:Accelerando? It already has a talking cat (and magnificent bastard) in it called "Aineko".
I forgot about that one... or maybe I hadn't read it yet at the time... Either way, definitely a good choice. It's spiritual successor "Glasshouse" would work quite well too. Man in a woman's body, violence, sexual tension, etc.
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They do already have a Manga. So that's about half done.modularblues wrote:.psyck0 wrote:Star Trek.
No, seriously. It would be hilarious.
Man, I ROFLed IRL on that one
Huxley's Island (but now that I think about it, Brave New World too) could get some decent stuff out of an anime, or other mature animation format.
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Solaris would probably look good as anime.
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The Stainless Steel Rat. Preferably done by Hayao Miyazaki as a kind of futuristic sequel to Castle of Cagliostro.
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I would love to see (not necessarily as anime, but some kind of visual medium) Iain Banks' The Player of Games or Use of Weapons.
I think they would look better as live action though. I would probably like to see Kevin J. Anderson's 'Saga of Seven Suns' as an anime. It's one of those series that's way too big for a movie, and they will never spend enough on making a live action tv style show on it to get it to look nearly as good as it would want to, but it could look really cool as an anime.
I think they would look better as live action though. I would probably like to see Kevin J. Anderson's 'Saga of Seven Suns' as an anime. It's one of those series that's way too big for a movie, and they will never spend enough on making a live action tv style show on it to get it to look nearly as good as it would want to, but it could look really cool as an anime.
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I second the electric church. It would carry over very well into an anime.
I also want to see the Algebraist as an anime. The book was pretty damn epic.
I also want to see the Algebraist as an anime. The book was pretty damn epic.
Oh. Well that's alright then.
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Shade's Children by Garth Nix. It would make a perfect single-season anime I think.
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I want to see Snow Crash as one, even though it may come out looking like a painful GITS rip-off. I just want to see what happens when someone doesn't listen to reason.
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Another vote for Snow Crash.
Some things should be left as books IMO. The Kovacs trilogy being one of them.
IIRC the film rights for Altered Carbon have already been sold and some turgid MTV generation director is going to make it. I think it's the chap who did the 2 Fast 2 Furious films
nsmjohn wrote:To rerail the conversation: The Takeshi Kovacs novels. Lots of violence and sex treated in a manner that I find somewhat similar to anime and has a fairly decent narrative that ends the way many animes do: life carries on, not everyone lives happily ever after.
Some things should be left as books IMO. The Kovacs trilogy being one of them.
IIRC the film rights for Altered Carbon have already been sold and some turgid MTV generation director is going to make it. I think it's the chap who did the 2 Fast 2 Furious films

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another random bump, but how could this thread exist with no mention of Peter F Hamilton, more specifically his Night's Dawn Trilogy, if you've read the books you'll know what I mean.
that is all.
that is all.
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I hated the Nights Dawn trilogy. More accurately, I hated the first book because that's all I managed to slog my way through before I gave up. My biggest problem with it was too many characters and too many completely unrelated plot threads. I'd be reading a chapter and following a plot thread, and then the next chapter comes along and carries on an earlier story I've already completely forgotten about. And nothing makes sense because you're assumed to have remembered what was going on earlier. Half the time, I couldn't even remember who was supposed to be who, or if we'd encountered a particular character yet.

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SlyReaper wrote:I hated the Nights Dawn trilogy. More accurately, I hated the first book because that's all I managed to slog my way through before I gave up. My biggest problem with it was too many characters and too many completely unrelated plot threads. I'd be reading a chapter and following a plot thread, and then the next chapter comes along and carries on an earlier story I've already completely forgotten about. And nothing makes sense because you're assumed to have remembered what was going on earlier. Half the time, I couldn't even remember who was supposed to be who, or if we'd encountered a particular character yet.
Sounds like an anime right?
Although I was more going for the random people from history flinging white fire around the place, and flying ships that look like dragons and giant eagles and stuff.
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It appears to have been mentioned several times, actually. Unlike Kiln People. Why don't more people love Kiln People? It is such a very awesome book.AvatarIII wrote:but how could this thread exist with no mention of Peter F Hamilton, more specifically his Night's Dawn Trilogy
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SlyReaper wrote:I hated the Nights Dawn trilogy. More accurately, I hated the first book because that's all I managed to slog my way through before I gave up. My biggest problem with it was too many characters and too many completely unrelated plot threads. I'd be reading a chapter and following a plot thread, and then the next chapter comes along and carries on an earlier story I've already completely forgotten about. And nothing makes sense because you're assumed to have remembered what was going on earlier. Half the time, I couldn't even remember who was supposed to be who, or if we'd encountered a particular character yet.
Most of the disparate storylines do tie into the 'main' plot fairly well. It just takes 2500 pages for it to happen. But yeah, that's the kind of book I like, with a vast sprawling world, multiple interweaving plots and 20+ main characters. There were a lot of B-plots to establish the effect the events were having on the universe as a whole, though. Most of the Edenist bits, the New California stuff, the Valisk bits and the Kulu empire stuff was just scene-setting fluff really.
All the story really needs to function is Joshua, Quinn, Ione, maybe Louise, and Alkad Mzu. But that's really not the point.
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I seem to remember the Dariat/Valisk sub plot being quite important, (and considering I finished reading the last book in 2006 it must have been quite memorable) but I guess if you wanted to turn the 3k+pp trilogy into a 400pp book, or a movie god-forbid,, you're probably right.
Where? I scanned the thread and did a text search, found nothing.
Jorpho wrote:It appears to have been mentioned several times, actually. Unlike Kiln People. Why don't more people love Kiln People? It is such a very awesome book.AvatarIII wrote:but how could this thread exist with no mention of Peter F Hamilton, more specifically his Night's Dawn Trilogy
Where? I scanned the thread and did a text search, found nothing.
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(Search for "Dawn".)AvatarIII wrote:Where? I scanned the thread and did a text search, found nothing.
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