Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel, Cat’s Cradle, will be adapted for television by IM Global Television, Entertainment Weekly reports. Brad Yonover and Sandi Love will serve as co-executive producers for the series.

“Cat’s Cradle is a true classic, not just in the science fiction genre, but [also] in literature overall,” said company co-founder Mark Stern to The Wrap. “We couldn’t be more honored or excited to adapt this seminal work for television.”

Stern previously spent over a decade at Syfy, which produced “Battlestar Galactica.”

The story involves the children of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who develops the atomic bomb and, later, ice-nine, a new form of water that could, theoretically, have disastrous consequences for the planet.

Vonnegut’s work has been adapted to the screen before, with much acclaim, including Slaughterhouse-Five, which was directed by George Roy Hill and released in 1972. Other adaptations, such as Breakfast of Champions (1999), have been less popular.

In addition to Vonnegut’s book, IM Global Television has also recently procured the rights to author Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series.