>Hyperion is getting a Sy Fy mini series Not sure how to feel.

>>80312210
That guy's the super hard with a capital H, hard sci-fi guy, right? Or am I thinking of someone else?

>>80312292

Considering this is the series where the power of love lets you teleport around the universe, you're thinking of someone else.

>>80312292
No, I'm thinking of Alastair Reynolds, never mind.

>>80312210
Considering I have never liked a scifi series I'm guessing it's going to be shit. Too bad, great book.

>>80312344
hahahahahahahahahaha

OFFICIAL 2017 SHRIKE PILGRIM TALES POWER RANKINGS

1. "The Man who Cried God" (Hoyt)
2. "The War Lovers" (Kassad)
3. "The Long Goodbye" (Lamia)
4. "The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter" (Weintraub)
5. "Hyperion Cantos" (Silenus)
6. "Remembering Siri" (Consul)

>>80312503
Which one was the one where the daughter ages backwards?

>>80312210
Wait is this the series with the girl that falls in love with her sterilized protector, then goes forward in time to bear him a child for a few years before going back in time to seduce him?
This was a wild ride if so.

>>80312595

Weintraub

>>80312503
>>80312595
and which one is the one where the priest find the crucimorph?

>>80312663
The man who cried god (Hoyt)

>>80312396
similar covers, my brain noticed a pattern

>>80312503
Good ranking - Hoyt's story is the best by a long way

>>80312675
thank you based anon

>>80312595
not that poster but I think 4 because he was a jew. That and 5 are my two favorites.

>>80312210
The first book would work well as a miniseries

The rest I'm not so sure

>>80312344
Chasm City series when

I'd rather have Book of the New Sun become a mini-series, mostly because I'm curious how they'd translate the book's world-building to a screen.

Does anyone feel that the ending of this book reminded them of a mix between The Wizard of Oz and the end of The Seventh Seal?

>>80312210
JUST

I guess

>>80312792

Uh, they literally march hand-in-hand singing "We're off to see the Wizard" at the end, so if it didn't remind you of The Wizard of Oz you'd have to be braindead.

I hope they don't fuck up the Shrike.

>>80312828
I am braindead. I forgot about that.

>>80312768
Yes, I'm sure they'd do a great job adapting that one.

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>>80312768
>torturer's guild shown in tv series
>has only cliche instruments like the rack or iron maiden

What are some SF/F which would be easily adaptable to good-quality series without losing too much or having costly/improbable requirements?

My first thought is Vernor Vinge

>>80313065
The Forever War

it's gotten a lot of stuff right about the direction man is headed

>>80313065
Starfish

>>80313115
Could work , the future in the book is maximum progressive

Would be very interesting to see how the TechnoCore is depicted , and how they would do the Shrike . Father Hoyts story is pretty fucking intense as well , but my favorite is probably Kassad as he ends up boning the Shrike/ Jews daughter

>>80313469
I'll watch just to see a depiction of the Shrike but OPs pic doesn't make me very hopeful.

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>>80312210

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>>80312210
It won't work

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>>80312829
you know they will. everyone has a different idea of what the Shrike looks like. it's like Eccles.

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>>80312210
>>Hyperion is getting a Sy Fy mini series
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee''

Still no The Diamond Age.

This will not end well, especially if they try to go past the first book.

They should just leave it at The Canterbury Tales is space and only do the first book

>>80313065
Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix.

> war between Shapers and Mechanists
> Abelard Lindsay as the slick con-man
> assassin using poison moths to kill target
> Geisha Bank run by Kitsune using the old Yarite's mostly dead body as a puppet-front
> asteroid pirates on board the Red Consensus
> selling fake art to the Investors
> Linsday gets put On Ice, loses ten years of his life
> dat epic VR duel with Constantine
> final confrontation with The Presence

>>80314985
>Still no The Diamond Age.

there would be, if the book had an ending rather than just stopping.

>>80315103
That sounds fucking awful, anon.

>>80312210
I hate that nasty Shrike

Maybe adapting the expanse is giving syfy a little nerve in new series.

I'd love to see something wholly original but hey.

>>80314968
He sure as fuck doesn't look like a retarded mantis
>>80314642

>>80312210
Literally a meme book

>>80312503
>robot fucking fanfic-tier tale
>not dead last

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>>80315328
If we're looking for the closest thing to a canon appearance we might as well use the book covers

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>>80315157
>fin

Jokes on you, I never finished it!

>>80312829
They don't even really need to show the Shrieke in detail until the very end. It's just an entity haunting their dreams if I recall.

>>80312210
I'd rather see an Ilium/Olympus series.

With an HBO budget the Trojans, gods and dinosaurs would work well.