Science Fiction

...that could made into good-quality, commercial-free series on a premium channel.

Movies are good, but trying to take a novel and turn it into a movie of reasonable length seem to be more miss than hit.


For example... "The Mote in God's Eye". A classic, militaristic sci-fi novel. Long, involved story to try to adapt to the big screen, but a multi-part episode on HBO? I think it could work. CGI is cheap enough now to make good Moties for HBO, right?

Harry Turtledove has written several series of novels that could be adapted as well. "The Misplaced Legion", about part of a Roman legion transported by magic to a world of intrigue and sorcery (based on the ancient Byzantine Empire) might do very well. And there are two other series, each a prequel, that also could be made into several more seasons worth of swords and sorcery fodder.

Or his series where the South wins the civil war? He follows that logically into 1914, when The Great War breaks out and the USA is allied with the Axis powers while the CSA sides with the Allies. I think there are four books on that alone, along with more books for dealing with WW2 along the same geopolitical lines.


There is a lot of stuff out there that I think could be serialized.