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• Red Rising would be unreal
• Anything Sanderson would be nice. Especially his fantasy stuff but his Cytonic series would be good.
• The First Law Trilogy
• Codex Alera
• If Rothfuss wilould finish the friggin trilogy King killer Chronicles would be good

I read some Halo books that seemed like they'd make for great TV.

The Quantum Thief trilogy. Mainly because part of it takes place in Oubliette, a city whose buildings, plazas and monuments are carried across the surface of Mars by giant robots. That ought to be quite a spectacle.

Hyperion cantos

Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett. They had a film adaptation in the works a few years ago, but it fell through.

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.

Ann Leckie's Ancillary series would make a fantastic space epic, if handled properly.

Joe Abercrombie's 'First Law.'

Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series.

Old mans war. Come on they take OAP and turn them into super fighting soldiers to fight a whole galaxy of different races. We literally could have Morgan Freeman and Arnold err the terminator smashing aliens.

Joe Abercrombie -- First Law Trilogy
Stephen R Donaldson -- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

A real adaptation of the Foundation Series. Not the abomination we are getting from Apple.

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.

The Expeditionary Force series! I loved the series and listened to the whole thing on audible! The great thing is, R.C. Bray could still voice one of the key characters who makes the whole series fun and addicting!

The Murderbot Diaries

the wandering inn. absolutely no way a movie would do it justice though

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

A Canticle for Lebowitz would be AMAZING!!

Cosmere - Mistborn, Stomlight Archives, etc...

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.

Red Rising would be a phenomenal TV show.

Mistborn and Stormlight Archive from Sanderson would also be incredible.

seveneves would make a banger series.

Realm of the Elderlings.

Becky chambers wayfinders

Locked tomb

Mark Lawrence's book of the ancestor.

I just finished the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, and that would work great as a gangster/martial arts show.

I feel like the Destroyermen series would fit a tv show format pretty well.

For the longest time, I wanted to see the Percy Jackson series adapted. (I'm not counting those movies!) Thankfully, it is and the first book/first season will be coming out in December. I hope they are able to expand to the entire universe that Riordan made. There are so many stories that would be great to see.

Technically a book series, warhammer 40k. It's being made too and I'm as excited as I'm afraid.