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Best New Wave Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

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 (cover not available)

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...

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The Atrocity Exhibition

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 Amazon
The Hampdenshire Wonder

The 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 Amazon
The Xipehuz And The Death Of The Earth

The 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 Amazon
The Drowned World

The 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 Amazon
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind

Three 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,...

J.-h Rosny Buy on Amazon
Super 8

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 Amazon
Babylon 5 (cover not available)

Babylon 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 Amazon
Fringe (cover not available)

Fringe

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 Amazon
Collision Course (cover not available)

Collision 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 Amazon
Soul Of A Robot

Soul 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 Amazon
The Adolescence Of P-1

The 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 Amazon
Www: Wake

Www: 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 Amazon
Cyteen

Cyteen

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 Amazon
Red Planet Blues

Red 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 Amazon
Slayers

Slayers

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 Amazon
Blackfish City

Blackfish 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 Amazon
Downbelow Station

Downbelow 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

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