Hyperion is getting a Sy Fy mini series

>Hyperion is getting a Sy Fy mini series

Not sure how to feel.

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

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

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

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

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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)

Which one was the one where the daughter ages backwards?

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.

Weintraub

and which one is the one where the priest find the crucimorph?

The man who cried god (Hoyt)

similar covers, my brain noticed a pattern

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

thank you based user

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

The first book would work well as a miniseries

The rest I'm not so sure

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?

JUST

I guess

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.

I am braindead. I forgot about that.

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

>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

The Forever War

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

Starfish

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

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

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It won't work

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

>>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

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

>Still no The Diamond Age.

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

That sounds fucking awful, user.

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.

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

Literally a meme book

>robot fucking fanfic-tier tale
>not dead last

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

>fin

Jokes on you, I never finished it!

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.

I'd rather see an Ilium/Olympus series.

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