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Now there's an SF series that would look great on screen, a straight-ahead military space opera with all the trimmings: a strong female lead; a scrappy crew against a powerful enemy; space battles; an alien race unlike any we've quite seen before. And the series owes quite a bit to forerunners in British naval fiction like Horatio Hornblower and the "Master and Commander" series (itself adapted with some critical and commercial success).
Even better, author David Weber's written a crap-ton of books in the series, so if the first one's successful you've got more where it came from.
There's also Open Salon blogger and author David Brin's "Uplift" saga, another rich SF world ripe for a screen treatment in the right hands.
