Best films never made

Spotted a story on the Register today - they'd (foolishly?) asked for suggestions on what was the best film never made.

And then they got an Inbox Explosion :-) Here's a link to the story with the full list.


Here's the list - the ones in italic with ****'s are the ones I've read. Need to get reading more !

• Ace Trucking Co – John Wagner and Alan Grant
• Against a Dark Background – Iain M Banks (it's waiting in the Pile)
• Agent To The Stars – John Scalzi
• The Amtrak Wars – Patrick Tilley
• Anvil of Stars – Greg Bear
• The Ballad of Halo Jones – Alan Moore
• The Black Cloud – Sir Fred Hoyle
• The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
• The Chanur Saga – CJ Cherryh
• Chasm City – Alastair Reynolds ****
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen R Donaldson
• The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
• Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert A Heinlein
• Creatures of Light and Darkness – Roger Zelazny
• Daemon – Daniel Suarez
• The Dark Wheel – Robert Holdstock
• Desolation Road – Ian McDonald
• The Difference Engine – William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• The Dispossessed – Ursula K Le Guin
• The Dosadi Experiment – Frank Herbert
• Earth – David Brin
• The Expendables – Edmund Cooper
• A Fall Of Moondust – Arthur C Clarke
• Feersum Endjinn – Iain M Banks ****
• The Fountains of Paradise – Arthur C Clarke
• Glory Road – Robert A Heinlein ****
• Hammer's Slammers – David Drake
• Have Spacesuit – Will travel – Robert A Heinlein ****
• Hinterlands – William Gibson
• Icerigger – Alan Dean Foster
• Inferno – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• The Integral Trees – Larry Niven
• The Invincible – Stanislaw Lem
• Kiln People – David Brin
• The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham
• The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Le Guin
• Liege Killer – Christopher Heinz
• Macroscope – Piers Anthony
• Mars – Ben Bova ****
• The Mars Trilogy – Kim Stanley Robinson ****
• Mindstar Rising – Peter F Hamilton
• Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
• Moving Mars – Greg Bear
• Mutineers' Moon – David Weber ****
• Nimbus – Alexander Jablokov
• The Number of the Beast – Robert A Heinlein ****
• Orbitsville – Bob Shaw
• Only Forward – Michael Marshall Smith
• Otherland – Tad Williams
• Out of the Silent Planet – CS Lewis
• Pandora's Star – Peter F Hamilton
• Planet of Adventure – Jack Vance
• Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds
• Revelation Space Saga – Alastair Reynolds
• Rocheworld – Robert L Forward
• Rogue Trooper – Gerry Finley-Day
• The Saga of the Well World – Jack L Chalker
• Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future – Mike Resnick
• The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
• The Skinner – Neal Asher
• Spinneret – Timothy Zahn ****
• Startide Rising – David Brin
• The Survivors – Tom Godwin
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Stanislaw Lem
• Time Enough for Love – Robert A Heinlein ****
• Timescape – Gregory Benford
• Transition – Iain M Banks
• A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! – Harry Harrison
• Ubik – Philip K Dick
• The Uplift War – David Brin
• The Void Trilogy – Peter F Hamilton
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle – AE van Vogt
• Vurt – Jeff Noon
• Who Goes There? – Bob Shaw
• The Wreck of The River of Stars – Michael Flynn

How many have you read ?