The books are excellent — great characters/dialogue, interesting plots that carry well through the entire series. Fans are terrified SyFy is going to ruin them.

John Scalzi's Old Man's War series is also lined up for SyFy. They're making good choices, at least.

It has one of the best lines ever from the show: "Gee, Squidward, maybe Santa will bring me a dictionary so I can understand what you just said."

It has one of the best lines ever from the show: "Gee, Squidward, maybe Santa will bring me a dictionary so I can understand what you just said."