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Best New Wave Science Fiction Books
The May 1964 issue of the venerable British science fiction magazine New Worlds had a new editor: Michael Moorcock. Moorcock, still in his early 20s, had already made a name...
Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century
The 21st Century was the focus of so much 20th century Science Fiction. From Blade Runner to Robocop, it was visions of the 2000s that flourished in the scifi that...
Books
The Atrocity Exhibition
Whenever you put a list of books together, you'll always get disagreements. But this could well be the most controversial choice of all, because J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has...
J. G. Ballard Buy on AmazonThe Hampdenshire Wonder
This was the first novel to fully explore the consequences of the birth of homo superior. Victor Stott is born weak and awkward, with an enlarged head, and at first,...
J D Beresford Buy on AmazonThe Xipehuz And The Death Of The Earth
The Belgian writer, who used the pseudonym J.-H. Rosny aîné, was possibly the leading continental rival to H.G. Wells, producing a string of vivid and inventive short novels. This one,...
J.-h Rosny Buy on AmazonThe Drowned World
Remember the fist apocalypse? You don't? I guess you're not all that old then. It's the one with the flood. Heard of it? Noah and the animals and the ship...
J. G. Ballard Buy on AmazonThree Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind
Rosny was the pseudonym of the Belgian writer, Joseph-Henri Boëx, who rivals his near contemporary, H.G. Wells, as one of the founding figures of European science fiction. Or at least,...
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Super 8
Super 8 is the best Steven Spielberg movie JJ Abrams ever made. It feels so much like the kind of film Spielberg would have created in the 80s that I...
J. J. Abrams Buy on AmazonBabylon 5
If you liked the political intrigue of Star Trek, but didn't think there was enough of it, then you need to watch Babylon 5. Possibly the most heavily political science...
J. Michael Straczynski Buy on AmazonFringe
The X-Files was great, and one of the things that great television series do is inspire imitators. Typically, these are low-rent, often even lower on fresh ideas, but then, once-in-a-while,...
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, And Roberto Orci Buy on AmazonCollision Course
Although he would enjoy something of a cult status among some British fans, Bayley is probably one of the forgotten figures of the British New Wave, largely because of his...
Barrington J. Bayley Buy on AmazonSoul Of A Robot
Soul of a Robot is sweet, and funny, and ridiculous. And I mean ridiculous in the nicest possible way. The novel is like the Katy Perry of the robot world...
Barrington J. Bayley Buy on AmazonThe Adolescence Of P-1
Contrary to popular belief, Canadians do know more about life other than snow, hockey, poutine, and being awfully polite. They've also managed to produce Thomas J. Ryan, the author of...
Thomas J. Ryan Buy on AmazonWww: Wake
The delicious irony (or coincidence? I never know which one is appropriate and I blame Alanis Morrisette and that terrible song entirely for this confusion) about this novel is that...
Robert J. Sawyer Buy on AmazonCyteen
C.J. Cherryh is one of the most consistently reliable authors of convincing, richly-detailed stories of life in space. And her fiction often is about space, set aboard spaceships and space...
C. J. Cherryh Buy on AmazonRed Planet Blues
Set on Mars, the book tells of a futuristic society set in New Klondike, a domed city on the Red Planet. Just like its namesake, the town was built to...
Robert J. Sawyer Buy on AmazonSlayers
Joss Whedon's one of the truly great TV and film directors, but his comic stuff has been hit or miss. When he took the Buffyverse to comics, the first pass...
C.j. Hill Buy on AmazonBlackfish City
Qaanaaq is a floating Arctic city built after the climate wars, crowded with refugees and spreading a disease called the breaks. When a mysterious woman arrives riding an orca with...
Sam J. Miller Buy on AmazonDownbelow Station
Downbelow Station is well known among science fiction readers. It's part of a sprawling set of novels - though each reads as a standalone, it's worth reading a few should...
C. J. Cherryh Buy on Amazon