Not so long ago i started thinking about what stories I enjoyed as books and would like to see made into film.

Well here’s one I would not have dared suggest, due to the dark and hugely complex stories (that, and it’s not finished yet) but of course if you go from film to TV then it might just work:

HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire & Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

“Fire” is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Benioff and Weiss will write every episode of each season together save one, which the author (a former TV writer) will script.

The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season’s worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won’t complete the seven-book cycle until 2011.

And as these things go, there’s just been announcement that Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” is also heading for a TV adaptation. That seems a bigger challenge yet, due to the mix of styles and realities in this book. Although it will be easier to adapt than “Snow Crash”, which I remember enjoying but something also not quite understanding - The Diamon Age is an “easier” book.

This reminds me that I haven’t read his books since “Cryptonomicon” (thoroughly recommended, by the way), I should check out what he’s done.