I'd like to know which fictional worlds from books people would most like to see games made from. I'm hoping this isn't a repeat thread as i'm still pretty new here, the quick search i did didn't throw up any likely titles.
My picks:
I. Asimov's Foundation sequence as a massive Civ style game
Neil Gaimans Sandman sequence as a classic adventure game
David Zindell's Neverness universe massive space rts or MMO
China Melville's Bas Lag- Twisted and awesome MMO or sandbox
Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO
F. Herbet's Dune MMO
U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea as an Oblivion like adventure
J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter deserves at least one good game, its had soooooo many bad ones.
Jeff Noon's Vurt world as an Oblivion/Max Payne like twisted adventure

i'm sure more will come to me but i'd love to see yours

I think the most interesting fictional world that could be made into a game is the one I built inside my head. But iit is too big to fit in a video game.
If I could pick something out of your list that some people can refer to I would either pick the world of Hyperion (by Dan Simmons) or the world of The Malazan Book of the Fallen (by Steven Erikson).
Awesome books, rich and complex worlds with profound and intricate dynamics.

Truthfully, I like gameworlds crafted specifically for the game.

Games based on someone elses IP are usually god-awful, and if I had a favorite book series, I certainly wouldn't want some game developer wiping their ass with it.

Eventhough I can't think of everyone who could pull it off, I would love to see a game based on either the Wheel of Time or A Song of Ice and Fire.

But I also think that Altorin is right. Most games based on movies or books dosen't turn out that good.

Can you imagine a space game based off Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Oh man, that would be something else.

I think that the Alistair Reynolds novels would be amazing for big sci-fi rpgs.
Unusually deep science fiction a few hundred years down the line. Lots of really interesting planets and factions.

Liatach:

Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO

I agree. There should be an MMO based on Discworld.

a game based on the Power of five books, that would be awesome!

Lance Icarus:
Can you imagine a space game based off Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Oh man, that would be something else.

Like this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml

The_root_of_all_evil:

Lance Icarus:
Can you imagine a space game based off Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Oh man, that would be something else.

Like this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml

Oh, I love that little flash game! Still, I meant a space sim, not an adventure game.

Still, I now have to play that game again. Curses!

It's gotta be a Special Circumstances set game in Iain M Banks' Culture for me.

Or a Judge Dredd game that doesn't suck.

Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would make a good setting. Don't think i've seen a half decent cyberpunk game since Deus Ex.

Steven Brusts' Taltos Series as Assasination game or MMORPG

DerGermanGuy:

Liatach:

Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO

I agree. There should be an MMO based on Discworld.

There is a text-based MUD, but I assume that's not what you had in mind.

The Warhammer 40k universe. Dont jump for the reply button yet!

While dawn of war is a very fun game and captures the essence of the different races as well as the constant conflict inherent to the setting, I must say that they've never captured the truly dark and gothic side of it (people who read into the stuff about chaos and all the inquisitor backstory will know what I'm on about)

If you look at all the artwork and writing in the books, comics and concepts for 40k so much of it has a real gothic undertone that I personally think really set it apart from the much more clean cut sci-fi around, which is kind of the point really! Space cruisers that are built like cathedrals! Space marines having their weapons blessed! The xenophobic attitude to anything unhuman! All those things are what make 40k stand out against all the generic sci-fi out there!

Ahem, rant over (fanboy much?)

JaseMorris:
It's gotta be a Special Circumstances set game in Iain M Banks' Culture for me.

Or a Judge Dredd game that doesn't suck.

That would be great. Banks books are probably the best sci-fi I have read. The scope of them is so much larger than most. He really builds another world, whereas so many just use our own society with lasers, no real innovation.

I think a Mass Effect type game based on Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Cycle Deities books, with Titus Crow as Shepard, The Clock of Dreams as the Normandy, Ithaqua & Cthulhu as Soverign type characters, Elysia as the Citadel...

Adventure/Action game based off of the Skulduggery Pleasant series.
Maybe have a free-roam environment, and have a story mode perhaps based off of the books. Or a new one.

I'm thinking of the world from Ian Irvine's "The View for the Mirror" Series. Those were excellent books. Either that or a Call of Duty game based in Harry Turtledove's "Into the Darkness" Series.

I'd say A Song of Ice and Fire, but I'd be afraid of the inevitably bad game.

Probably Warhammer 40.000, yeah. The world that the guys at Black Library are creating is amazingly massive and versatile, and seems perfect for an MMO, or a Mass Effect-esque RPG.

The book "Enders game". Or the "The Supernaturalists", I know simple book but it's crying for a movie!

What about the Soul Society from Bleach?

From the magical mind of Oscar Wilde!

There was a Blade Runner game, back in the Pentium I/Windows 95 era. Hell, there were a LOT of good games back then. Does anyone else miss games like the Tex Murphy series, or the Phantasmagoria games?

Forgotten Realms.
Pure genius, that one is.

i know it not a book but a comic marvel zombies, it would be fucking awesome but if they do actually make it they will only fuck it up like in every marvel game or Stephen kings the mist that would be a good world for a game but it might be too much like silent hill

Discworld has three adventure games and a MUD, and those are the mediums in which it works, I suspect.

Without a doubt, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven.

The hero-protagonist (whose name is Hiro Protagonist) is a badass samurai coder pizza deliverer in a dystopian future.

Wow some great ideas have come up here, I had forgotten to come back and check on this as it took a while to get the first replies.

Ian M Banks = definite possibilities for a great games.

The Skulldugery Pleasants could be fun, especially if they did them before a movie is made.

Juandonde- i totally agree, the potter universe is far more interesting than the limited scope available to Harry as a character. massive sandbox is exactly what i would like to see, or if thats a bit too optimistic at least something of the scale of Bully.

Eggo= a good Dark Tower game would be dripping awesome and covered in Win flakes, though i fear we would just receive a generic distopian, western shooter.

Keep the idea's flowing, sounds like i need to read Ice & Fire
thanks

Liatach:

U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea as an Oblivion like adventure

omg yes that one!!!

actually i am not sure if this has been done but like a dragonlance MMO or RPG maybe?