Some of the written masterpieces of science fiction have been adapted more than once onto the big screen. with some better than others.

Giant worms. God-Emperors. Gom jabbars. When it comes to sci-fi, nobody does it quite like Dune. When Frank Hebert’s weird anti-chosen one epic first hit the shelves in 1965, who woulda thunk it would ...

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why haven’t we seen any aliens?” This question is known as the Fermi Paradox – ...

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While some “unfilmable” novels have been successfully adapted, the books on this list might be too difficult to even attempt.