First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.
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Go back farther: A. E. van Vogt.
Tons of creative worlds and ideas that could be made into movies or whole shows.
His stories have a Lovecraftian mastery of the written word, but you experience his science-hero dreams instead of existential horrors.
Not a lot of character development, but good screenwriters can add that in.