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There’s been an explosive renaissance in science fiction and fantasy TV and film programming for quite some time now. Yet, there’s still room for more. The complex nature of most science fiction and fantasy series means that TV adaptations are often a better choice, but I’m not picky: I just want to see these eight novels or series on the screen in some capacity.
The Warrior’s Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold (The Vorkosigan Saga)
In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a famous segment from the Disney film Fantasia, a naïve and hapless Mickey Mouse casts a magic spell that results in a hilariously escalating disaster. If the title of the first novel in The Vorkosigan Saga sounds like a play on that, well, that’s because it is. Except that instead of an uncontrollable army of water-obsessed brooms, our 17-year-old protagonist, Miles Vorkosigan, ends up in charge of an entire spaceship fleet of mercenaries, thanks to a series of increasingly comical misunderstandings and improvisations. That leads to political consequences of galactic proportions.
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The Warrior’s Apprentice is a galloping romp of a book. Miles Vorkosigan is one of the most fantastic science-fiction characters ever written, and it’s a crime that he has yet to be brought to life on screen. Perhaps part of the reason he hasn’t is that he’s visibly disabled: an assassination attempt while his mother was pregnant resulted in prenatal damage that even advanced medicine wasn’t able to fully repair. Miles’s growth is stunted and his bones brittle, and as a result, the prejudiced and aristocratic society of his homeworld is ready to write him off as weak and inconsequential. The brilliance of his character is in how Miles refuses to accept his own limitations, relentlessly seeking a path to greatness in spite of—or maybe because of—every seemingly insurmountable obstacle in his way.
Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel’s Legacy)
Game of Thrones proved that combining sensuality…
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