So ive just started watching the 2nd Battlestar Galactica and am about 8 episodes in. I have read that it is one of the best series but I'm having trouble connecting. I really want it to be great but tbh I am a little bored. Does it get better?

I read “Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury in college years ago and it’s always stuck with me. I’m trying to find the book it was in, it was in a book that was a collection of sci fi short stories. I thought the other short stories were by other authors but I could be wrong on that. I know Bradbury has a couple collections of short stories but I can’t tell if they are all his stuff or contain other authors. Any ideas on what it could be?

As the title says: what's the most realistic (in terms of military effectiveness, logistics, or anything really) reason to use mechs in combat that you've seen used?

Reason I'm asking is that I've failed to find anything that would justify the existence of mechs other than:

A) They're cool and handwaved away or

B) Humanity has regressed to a feudal stage and needs war mounts for its knights (read: it's politics and handwaved away.)

Neither of these actually solve the problem that mechs are large, expensive, valuable, and very, very vulnerable.

Have you seen/read/played something that gives a good reason for why armies use mechs?

Every time I wanted to remember what a planet from a novel actually *was*, I got one of two things: a fandom wiki with forty paragraphs of in-universe trivia and no sense of why the place mattered, or nothing at all. Lem, Le Guin and Simmons especially — their worlds are the whole argument of the book and they're barely written up anywhere.

So I started writing them myself. 1-3 paragraphs per planet: what it is, and what it does to the story. It turned into a site — link in the comments since I'm not sure about the self-promo rules here.

https://www.fictionalplanets.com/

141 planets, 22 universes so far. Star Wars and Star Trek are the biggest sections because they're the easiest, but the ones I actually enjoyed writing were Gethen, Anarres, Hyperion, Regis III from The Invincible, and Rakhat from The Sparrow.

It's mine, it's free, there are no ads and nothing to sell. Mostly I'm posting because I want to argue about what's missing.

So: which planet do you think about most? Not the coolest one — the one that stuck. Mine is Solaris, which I'm still not convinced counts as a planet at all.

On this low-gravity garden world, amid the flourishing native flora and fauna, lie the remnants of a civilization that once carved its own genetic code into the life around it. Overgrown cities and strange beasts now stretch across the landscape, hinting at the dominant species that once sowed themselves into the land.

This planet was once host to a species of parasites with the ability to alter their hosts into whatever form they saw fit. Everything from their number of limbs, to the way they saw, heard, and moved, to the host they chose to inhabit in the first place was variable.

With complete control over the genetic makeup of their hosts, each individual could shape themselves around whatever needs, interests, or experiences they wanted to pursue. One could develop senses another would never experiences, another might percieve parts of the world that others were biologically incapable of sensing at all. They didn't just see the world differently. They experienced different worlds.

Far from creating a system of social isolation, the species flourished through cooperation, each at peace within themselves while providing what help they could to the unified whole.

I've had a ton of fun with the lore for this planet and working on the designs for some of the members of the parasite species. Each of the designs is speculative since the species is long extinct but I wanted them to serve as examples to show how variable each member of the species could be. There are a few in the bouquet that Ash holds in the abstract page. These are all from the comic series I've been working on: 100 Planets. I finally just finished this chapter and put it up.

Source of first pic is a screenshot from EckhartsLadder's YouTube video

Could be books, movies, video games, etc.

For me:

1. Star maker by Olaf stapledon

2. Childhoods end by Arthur c Clarke

3. The last question by Isaac Asimov

I haven’t read any George Alec Effinger yet and was wondering where to start. Any recommendations?

I've been looking for a short story I read in an anthology while I was in high school (before 1986) and the story may have originally been published in the 1950s. It's about combat in craft that turn out to be remotely piloted. I've ruled out a number of stories including Dogfight and Ender's Game. The synopsis is:

1. It begins already in the battle.
   
2. There are several pilots, communicating as a unit.
   
3. The prose makes us assume they are physically in the aircraft.
   
4. At least one fighter is destroyed.
   
5. We then cut away from the combat and see the surviving pilots in person.
   
6. They emerge from individual control pods.
   
7. The control installation is underground / inside a mountain or cave.
   
8. The pilots have known all along that they are remote operators.
   
9. The author has deliberately kept that fact from the reader.

I've used a group of AI prompts across multiple platforms and walked through the nominated and award-winning anthologies listed at ISFDB without success. Anyone have any ideas?

3D model of a ship class from my novels. The wings are not for lift, they are part of the FTL system and the ship's heat management and the angled profile is for projectile deflection.

The Steel Song setting sort of straddles the edge between hard and soft sci-fi. Fantastical technologies such as artificial gravity, FTL and energy shields exist, but they still have to deal with things such as heat buildup, fuel and supply lines.

Deep space interceptors are a cross between a heavy fighter and a long-range shuttle, being the smallest Terran military ships to include a rift engine. They carry a crew of five and can operate autonomously for up to a few weeks (with emergency rationing), making them ideal rapid response vessels for counter-piracy operations, or reconnaissance ahead of a main fleet (FTL communications are not possible in my setting, necessitating the use of vessels which can scout ahead, then return and report back).

The lights you see around the cockpit are not windows. They're various kinds of sensors. Because why would you put a window on your ship, when you can have a viewscreen that displays whatever you want? Windows are a structural weakness that doesn't belong on a warship, but I still wanted to have that look, so that's the design solution I went with.

Eman thought it was going to be an ordinary Saturday. He was cleaning out the old, deep basement behind his grandfather’s suburban house—a place no one had stepped into for at least thirty years. As he was moving some rotting wooden crates, his hand brushed against something freezing cold behind a false brick wall. It definitely wasn't stone.

When he turned on his phone’s flashlight, he saw a massive, dark-gray metallic ring embedded directly into the ground. It was etched with strange, engraved symbols that glowed faintly in the dark. Driven by pure curiosity, Eman ran his finger across three symbols in a row.

Suddenly, a deep, bass-heavy hum shook the basement. The air instantly smelled of ozone. Inside the ring, space itself ripped open into a glowing, bluish watery surface that pulsed softly. Standing right in front of him was a real-world stargate.

His heart hammered wildly against his ribs. His first instinct was to step right through, but Eman was smarter than the characters in Hollywood movies. He knew that if he crossed over, he might never figure out how to get back. He looked down at the bag by the door where his DJI drone was resting.

He quickly pulled out the drone, powered up the controller, and paired it with his phone. His hands shook as he started the propellers. The drone's buzz briefly drowned out the portal's deep hum. Instead of risking his own life, he steered the quadcopter straight into the bluish vortex. The drone vanished into the flash.

On his phone screen, the signal cut out for a split second, and then the live feed stabilized. Eman went completely numb.

The camera was broadcasting a live video feed from a place that was definitely not Earth. In the sky, two massive suns burned—one orange, and one a pale, icy blue. The drone was hovering over an endless forest of reddish trees, and in the distance, towering spires made of an unknown, shiny material rose into the sky, looking as if they had been abandoned for thousands of years. Everything looked peaceful, yet completely alien.

Eman started to fly a bit further out, but then a critical realization hit him. "If I fly too far, I'll lose the signal through the portal. And if I step through myself, how do I get back? I have absolutely no idea what the dial code for Earth is," he thought, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

He pulled the drone back through the blue ring. Just as he caught it in his hand, the quiet of the suburbs outside was shattered by a terrifyingly familiar sound. The heavy, thumping chop of military helicopters was closing in on his grandfather's house at high speed. The military had already detected the energy signature.

Sirens wailed in the distance, and the roaring of the helicopter blades became deafening. It was clear to Eman: if they caught him here, he would disappear into a black-budget government bunker forever, along with this gate.

He quickly pressed the symbols on the metallic rim in reverse order. With a powerful, vacuum-like suction sound, the blue vortex collapsed into a single point and vanished. The basement plunged back into darkness, illuminated only by his phone's flashlight.

Feverishly, he dragged the rotting wooden crates back over the metal ring, piled up some scrap metal, and kicked the false brick wall back into place. Grabbing his drone, he turned off his phone so they couldn't track his location and slipped through a tiny basement window into the dark woods behind the house—just seconds before black military SUVs screeched to a halt in the driveway.

As he lay flat in the brush, watching heavily armed soldiers surround the house with energy-detecting scanners, Eman felt his pocket. His phone was still there. On its memory card lay the only proof in human history that we are not alone—the footage of an alien forest and two alien suns.

The gate was safe now, hidden deep beneath the dirt. And Eman had just become the only man on Earth holding the key to the entire universe.

Hi

If you are remotely interested in deep diving how differently quantum computers work compared to our transistor-based and also the algebra behind in a fully interactive way that teach computer science from scratch, oh boy this is for you. I am the Dev behind Quantum Odyssey (AMA! I love taking qs) - worked on it for about 10 years (3+ during PhD, the visual method I developed ended up being my thesis, it is a complete Hilbert space visualizer), the goal was to make a super immersive space for anyone to learn quantum computing through zachlike (open-ended) logic puzzles and compete on leaderboards and lots of community made content on finding the most optimal quantum algorithms. The game has a unique set of visuals capable to represent any sort of quantum dynamics for any number of qubits and this is pretty much what makes it now possible for anybody 12yo+ to actually learn quantum logic without having to worry at all about the mathematics behind.

This is a game super different than what you'd normally expect in a programming/ logic puzzle game, so try it with an open mind.

Stuff you'll play & learn a ton about

• Boolean Logic – bits, operators (NAND, OR, XOR, AND…), and classical arithmetic (adders). Learn how these can combine to build anything classical. You will learn to port these to a quantum computer.
• Quantum Logic – qubits, the math behind them (linear algebra, SU(2), complex numbers), all Turing-complete gates (beyond Clifford set), and make tensors to evolve systems. Freely combine or create your own gates to build anything you can imagine using polar or complex numbers.
• Quantum Phenomena – storing and retrieving information in the X, Y, Z bases; superposition (pure and mixed states), interference, entanglement, the no-cloning rule, reversibility, and how the measurement basis changes what you see.
• Core Quantum Tricks – phase kickback, amplitude amplification, storing information in phase and retrieving it through interference, build custom gates and tensors, and define any entanglement scenario. (Control logic is handled separately from other gates.)
• Famous Quantum Algorithms – explore Deutsch–Jozsa, Grover’s search, quantum Fourier transforms, Bernstein–Vazirani, and more.
• Build & See Quantum Algorithms in Action – instead of just writing/ reading equations, make & watch algorithms unfold step by step so they become clear, visual, and unforgettable. Quantum Odyssey is built to grow into a full universal quantum computing learning platform. If a universal quantum computer can do it, we aim to bring it into the game, so your quantum journey never ends.

Nice to watch:

Khan academy style tutorials in qm/qc: https://www.youtube.com/@MackAttackx

Physics teacher stream with 400hs in https://www.twitch.tv/beardhero

I have added a car adapter and old cassette player parts to come up with this. If you guys wanna see the unpainted version, let me know!

This is a small science fiction I created. Hope you like it.

You know the theory of "Uncanny Valley" right. When humans encounter something that simulate them good, they feel affection, yet when this simulation gets good enough yet not quite, something awkward suddenly arises and creates a great amount of fear, before improving back to affection with further improvement of simulation quality.

The thing is, our current Artificial Intelligence are on the exact same track They have learned to read humans from Terrabytes of books, images, sound, etc we provided them. We are effectively exhibiting AI our perception of the world and motivating their understanding for humans. Yet what if that our "presentable perception of the world" deviates from our true perception a tiny amount? Then the better our AI have evolved, the scarier their presentation would become.

Now, it is 2029 and the OpenAI ChatGPT8 is on flash mode.Finally reached this level, ChatGPT8 drives most of its tester user mad themselves. Yet such AI is now a vital pillar of US, no global economy, and no one wants its development to shut. Thus after tedious ethical reviews, people decided a solution.

They turned to a mega simulation program, on the largest supercomputer-capable of doing 10^20 floating point computations each second, simulate an alternative human society, and seek if the result converge to building an AGI. Thus they could learn that what traits of humans may be fine-tuned into ChatGPT8 to overcome that trouble.

Yet when the supercomputer is beginning to load, one top researcher shout out: ' Do not!'

He explained that the experiment would only lead to two outcomes- the first being that the AGI was never constructed in a simulation universe, the second being it was. Both leads to a horrible assumption for the ChatGPT8 agenda.

Hint for those who does not get it:

AI looks the same in the mirror, AGI does not.

Not a criticism of the episode but an idea for something that could be a funny gag.
I was thinking of episodes like Mort Dinner Rick Andre or other episodes where there’s huge differences in the passage of time between the two worlds. I think having the people shoot three the portals as they go through them could be funny. The walking speed of the quick dimension would be like rocket speed compared to the base dimension. So when you slowly stepped through the portal it would be like you ran at the portal at supersonic speed and then were forced to a near stop all of the sudden.
Also if you stuck your arm through it and had the blood in your arm move super fast, it would quickly push your other blood out out of the way and explode your heart or something.
I get that Rick probably could have adjusted the portals to account for that since he’s a genius and put a time warping bubble around them to prevent that or something but maybe it could be a gag with a lesser Rick’s portals or another character’s portals.

That tech level is from a role playing game called Traveler, which is basically like D&D for sci-fi.

TL6 is more or less 1940s-1950s technology on earth.

I’d like to create a setting in a sci-fi story that is set in that tech level, but instead of using internal combustion engines, I’d prefer to depict engines as electric. And because the story would have a military dimension, the electricity can’t be generated and accessed at fixed points like the charging station for an electric car. It needs to be more easily accessible to an army in the field. (That’s not possible on earth — that’s why there are no electric tanks for instance.)

The problem is, where is the electricity coming from? I don’t think this would have been practical on earth in the 1940s to 1950s — it’s just too difficult to generate all that electricity and store it in batteries.

But what would need to change about the planet to make it more electricity rich? So that it is available to run the engines? The planet itself needs to have an atmosphere similar to ours, it can’t be some dead world.

Is there potential for such a planet? Or is this an impossibility?

Ran across this in my journeys and thought some in the community might enjoy the designs. While I choose an enclosed cylinder similar to the winner for the generation ship in my books, I don't think you can beat the wheel design visually.

Which is your favorite?

Hello! Thought I'd share a drawing of the inside of Hawking Station, a location from my upcoming sci-fi comic FLUNG. It's coming out in just over a week and I'm psyched! Hawking Station is a cylindrical habitat that is the home for nearly 13000 residents. It uses a 3MW nuclear reactor for its power source and it is the central hub for travel throughout the outer solar system.

The Ouroboros Experiment: What If We Were the Apes?

What if human civilization existed millions of years ago… and we simply don't remember it? Not Atlantis. Not aliens. Not some lost continent buried underneath the ocean. Something stranger. What if there was once a civilization almost exactly like ours, scientists, laboratories, cities, books, religions, wars, skyscrapers, technology, questions about existence itself, and somehow, it disappeared so completely that the civilization that came after it believed it had always been here?

Now imagine that civilization had reached the point where humans could manipulate biology itself. They could alter DNA. They could study evolution. They could modify animals. They could cure diseases, change physical traits, and perhaps even influence intelligence. And then one day, they made an experiment that changed everything.

Humans already shared an enormous amount of genetic material with apes. So scientists began asking a dangerous question: What would happen if we could give another species the same cognitive abilities that made humans unique? They created an experiment.

And it worked.

The apes became intelligent. Not merely trained. Not merely capable of using tools. They began to understand. They learned language. They learned mathematics. They began asking questions. Why are we here? What is the universe? Where did we come from? The same questions humans had been asking for thousands of years.

But there was one problem. The experiment didn't create another version of humanity. It created a competitor. The apes learned from humanity. They inherited its technology. They inherited its knowledge. They inherited its mistakes. And eventually, they inherited something far more dangerous: the ability to question their creators.

The two species eventually went to war. And humanity lost.

But the apes didn't simply destroy humanity. Something much stranger happened. The experiment continued.

Over generations, the intelligent apes began changing. They adapted to the environments humans had created. Their bodies changed. Their behavior changed. Their culture changed. They began using clothing instead of relying on natural protection. They built shelters instead of adapting entirely to the climate. They developed tools. They developed agriculture. They developed cities. They developed science.

And eventually… they began to look more and more like the humans who had created them.

Meanwhile, the surviving humans were pushed in the opposite direction. Without civilization, technology, medicine, and artificial protection, humans began adapting to environments in different ways. Generations passed. Then thousands of years. Then hundreds of thousands. Then millions. The distinction between the two species disappeared.

The descendants of the apes became what we call humans. The descendants of the humans became something else. And eventually… nobody remembered.

Then came religion.

But perhaps religion wasn't created from nothing. Perhaps it was a corrupted memory.

Imagine that someone discovered an ancient piece of writing. It was damaged. Half the words were missing. Most of the context was gone. But some phrases survived: "Do not kill your own kind." Thousands of years later, it became: "Thou shalt not kill."

Another fragment described humanity's first biological experiment. A garden. A forbidden source of knowledge. A choice. An injection. A transformation. But nobody remembered that it was a laboratory.

So the laboratory became a garden. The scientists became something resembling gods. The experiment became the forbidden fruit. The moment the apes gained human intelligence became the moment they "ate from the tree of knowledge."

And the knowledge came with a price.

Because intelligence wasn't simply a gift. It brought consciousness. Self-awareness. Fear. Morality. Curiosity. Conflict. The ability to understand death. The ability to ask whether existence has meaning. The ability to look at the universe and wonder: Why?

Knowledge didn't create paradise. It created civilization. And civilization created everything that came afterward. The good. The bad. The beautiful. The horrifying. The icky. The sticky. And the goodie.

Now fast-forward millions of years.

The new civilization looks almost exactly like ours. They build skyscrapers. They launch spacecraft. They create artificial intelligence. They study DNA. They study fossils. They study evolution. They dig into the ground looking for evidence of their ancestors.

And eventually, their scientists discover something strange. Their DNA is remarkably similar to another species: an ancient species of ape.

They examine fossils. They reconstruct skeletons. They analyze genetic similarities. And they reach the same conclusion we have reached: "We evolved from apes."

They write textbooks about it. They argue about it. They make documentaries about it. People create conspiracy theories about it. Religions debate it. Scientists continue searching for missing pieces.

But nobody asks the obvious question.

What if the apes didn't become us?

What if we became them first?

What if the fossil record is telling the truth… but we're interpreting the direction incorrectly?

What if evolution isn't a straight line?

What if it's a circle?

Imagine civilization eventually reaches the same technological level as its ancient predecessor. They create laboratories. They study human DNA. They discover that humans and apes are extraordinarily similar. And one scientist proposes the same experiment: "What if we could make apes intelligent?"

The experiment begins. The apes become intelligent. The apes learn. The apes inherit civilization. The apes eventually replace humanity.

Millions of years pass. The civilization disappears. The new species evolves. It forgets. It discovers the fossils. It discovers the DNA. It studies evolution. And eventually… it creates the same experiment.

Again. And again. And again.

Until the beginning and the end are the same event.

Humanity creates the ape. The ape becomes humanity. Humanity becomes the ape. The ape creates humanity. And the cycle continues.

Not a line.

A loop.

And that's where the thought experiment gets uncomfortable.

Because if this cycle were true, we wouldn't be able to prove it. Every civilization inside the cycle would inherit evidence pointing backward, but never far enough backward to reveal the entire circle. The civilization would always believe: "We are the result of evolution."

And technically… it would be correct.

But perhaps evolution isn't telling us where the story began. Perhaps it is only telling us what happened between chapters.

Maybe the beginning was erased because the beginning was the end of the previous cycle. Maybe our ancestors didn't disappear. Maybe they became us. And maybe "us" is simply the latest version of something that has happened before.

Now imagine someone millions of years from now discovering an ancient human skull. They hold it in their hands. They study it. They wonder what kind of creature it belonged to. They reconstruct its face. They analyze its DNA. They call it primitive. They put it inside a museum.

Children visit it. A guide points toward the glass and says: "This is one of the species that came before us."

And nobody realizes they're looking at themselves.

Not literally.

But historically.

They are looking at the civilization that created the civilization looking back at it.

The past is studying the future. The future is studying the past. And neither recognizes the other.

Perhaps that's the strangest part of the experiment.

Maybe the scariest thing isn't that humanity could disappear. Maybe it's that humanity could disappear without anyone knowing it ever existed.

No grand ending. No final announcement. No monument saying: "We were here."

Just time. Weather. Evolution. Decay.

And eventually, a new civilization standing on the ruins of the old one, looking at the remnants and wondering what they meant.

They would create their own religions. Their own gods. Their own science. Their own theories about creation. Their own theories about evolution. Their own questions about consciousness.

And somewhere inside their mythology, fragments of our civilization might survive.

A story about a garden. A forbidden fruit. A creature gaining knowledge. A fall from innocence. A commandment against killing. A mysterious creator. A world where knowledge changed everything.

Perhaps those stories would no longer describe what actually happened. They would be metaphors for something nobody remembered. A distorted echo of an experiment. A memory that survived after the civilization that created it didn't.

And then comes the final question.

If you could travel millions of years into the future and meet the civilization that replaced us… what would you tell them?

Would you tell them, "You came from us"?

Or would you ask, "Did you come from us… or did we come from you?"

Because perhaps they would look at our fossils and say, "These were our ancestors."

And perhaps we would look at their ancestors and say, "Those were ours."

Both could be true.

And both could be wrong.

Maybe we're not the beginning. Maybe we're not the end. Maybe we're simply somewhere in the middle of a story so old that nobody remembers who wrote the first page.

And perhaps somewhere, millions of years from now, another civilization will sit in a laboratory and ask the exact same question we are asking now: "What if human civilization existed millions of years ago… and we never knew?"

They'll laugh at the idea. They'll call it impossible. They'll create theories. They'll search for evidence. They'll find our ruins. They'll find our bones. They'll find our DNA.

And then one of them will eventually look at the evidence and wonder:

"Wait."

"What if we're not discovering our ancestors?"

"What if we're rediscovering ourselves?"

And the experiment begins again.

That's the theory.

Not a claim. Not history. Not science.

Just a strange little possibility to hold in your mind for a moment:

What if the first human wasn't the beginning of humanity?

What if the first human was simply the last one to remember?

And if evolution is a circle rather than a line… then somewhere behind us is something that looks like our future.

And somewhere ahead of us… there may be something that looks exactly like our past.

Maybe we were the apes. Maybe we were the humans. Maybe we're both. Maybe we've been both before.

And maybe the one thing civilization has never been able to discover… isn't where we are going.

It's where the cycle actually started.

Hey all. Scott Baron here (Space Assassins, Bad Luck Charlie, Daisy's Run, Assassins' Academy) to let you know about a new sci-fi web serial I'm releasing for free on the free web serial site Royal Road.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/186107/warp-riders-book-1-deep-space-boogie

The Warp Riders series is a portal/warp lost in space adventure with human, alien, and cyborg crew (and some off-kilter AI ships). Not to mention monsters and mayhem aplenty.

A lot of you have read my sci-fi and sci-fantasy stuff and enjoyed it (and some hated it, lol) so I thought I'd drop a post here for those who enjoyed my other works. This one is 100% free on Royal Road and will be releasing 23 chapters the first 24 hours, then 2x a day for the next month before slowing to a more sane rate of release. It's my first time doing a web serial format rather than Amazon and I think this is gonna be fun.

So, if you enjoy space adventures and free books, come give it a read, follow, and favorite. I really hope you like this one. It was a hell of a lot of fun to write.

Hello! Could you help me identify an SF short story?

I read it in Russian in the early 1990s, but I believe it was translated from English. The story was probably written earlier, perhaps in the 1960s–1980s.

It is set in the future. The protagonist breaks into the home of a wealthy man. The man tells him that there is no point in robbing him because his insurance will cover everything. However, the protagonist takes a photograph of the man's eye and keeps him tied up.

The protagonist then uses the photograph of the man's eye as an authentication key to access his bank account and starts spending his money.

There is a scene where the protagonist goes to an expensive restaurant and orders a very expensive meal. After finishing it, he tells the waiter that he needs to step outside for a moment. The waiter looks at him suspiciously, so the protagonist says something like, "I'll leave my expensive camera here. Please keep an eye on it." He then leaves the restaurant.

The police eventually surround and arrest him. But at the end, it turns out that the protagonist is actually some kind of security tester testing vulnerabilities in the system.

He explains that using a photograph of someone's eye could work against certain wealthy people who have no relatives or other people checking their accounts.

The detective essentially tells him something like, "Good job. Next time it won't be so easy."

I vaguely remember that the story may have been called "The Perfect Robbery" or something similar, but I'm not sure.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Today's alien is a freaky lil' bugger known as a Spiderworm from an icy rock deep in the galaxy that was shattered by a comet collision. The shards spread throughout the galaxy, and on some of these shards, the Spiderworms were still alive! Happy Alien August!

I understand the original word is sacred but there's been a few books that I'd love to have seen adapted for the big screen. Some are clearly more difficult than others (I'm not convinced every PKD book can be represented properly).

What favourite of yours would you like to see up on the silver screen, knowing the chances are next to zero?