Let me toss in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Another with potential, but not a lot of action, which might bar it from production even were it up for that.
By the way, just in case anybody's interested, I read today that Spielberg took an option on the Tintin books in 1983 and finally decided to take them on. The first film should be ready in 2006, with Hanks as Captain Haddock.
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