I really really like John Wyndham's Chronoclasm, which is a sort of 1950s Time Traveller's Wife. Man meets very odd girl who turns out to be from the future and knows all about him, teaches him to make the time machine that sends her back in time to meet him etc...
In fact loads of John Wyndham short stories are fab. I like Dumb Martian, which is about a man who buys a 'stupid' martian lady to be his wife while he's living in exile on some planet somewhere, and treats her like crap but she turns out to be not so dumb after all and kills him in the end.
I don't think any of them have been made into films, and they'd need updating a bit, but I like them lots.
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Err... <a href="http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6.htm"<A Pail of Air</a> ? Mostly because the scenario seems like it has the potential to be visually impressive :-)
I like the fact that it's nice and simple (and so could be expanded into a movie, rather than cutting down something long and losing bits along the way), has the potential to be done in an interesting style, and hasn't quite been done before (Run Lola Run has similarities, but didn't make it actually part of the plot in the same way).
Movies are often spectacular so I would have thought that spectacular novels would be best but this is not the case. Starship Troopers for instance is a terrible movie maybe partly because writing spectacle and making a movie of it are very different. I think the most successful films are those based on a good idea but made with style like Blade Runner. What we are really missing though is an incredibly tightly plotted film, like one of Steven Moffat's best layered scripts, but with Ridley Scott stylishness. I'd like to see Little Big made but don't think it would be possible (and is barely SF IIRC). The film I'd really like to see is Lord of Light though - I do like epic tales.
Mate (though a professional film maker) is not overburdened with budget and is thus looking for clever ideas driven but non-spectacular plots - think Cube, or Blink, or maybe something that's mostly cheap but with a single big effect/monster (I've just thought - The Girl Had Guts might make a great exploitation movie with a little tweaking).
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:16 pm (UTC)In fact loads of John Wyndham short stories are fab. I like Dumb Martian, which is about a man who buys a 'stupid' martian lady to be his wife while he's living in exile on some planet somewhere, and treats her like crap but she turns out to be not so dumb after all and kills him in the end.
I don't think any of them have been made into films, and they'd need updating a bit, but I like them lots.
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Date: 2012-06-20 07:47 pm (UTC)I would particularly submit http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23162/23162-h/23162-h.htm (No Great Magic).
I think Leiber is terribly under-rated.
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