With Netflix's adaptation of Richard Morgan’s body-hopping cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon, Alex Garland directing the adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s weird and symbolist novel Annihilation and The Expanse’s third season set for release on Syfy this year, any number of SF and fantasy novels that were once thought unfilmable are now making their way to the screen. Here are 10 brilliant and strange books and series that could do with a nod from the TV commissioners…

The work of Ursula Le Guin, who died last month, is rich ground in general for prospective adapters — they might also have a look at The Lathe of Heaven, in which a man dreams world-ending horrors into existence, and the anarchist fable The Dispossessed — but this extraordinary novel, in which an interplanetary ambassador lands on a world of androgynes who become male or female once a month, is surely in first place. This is one of the books in which Le Guin struck a perfect balance between her talent for plotting and her gift for imaginative anthropology, weaving a story of Thrones-like diplomacy, intrigue and betrayal against a fascinating (and still startling) social backdrop.