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Top 50 Best Science Fiction Movies of All Time (cover not available)

Top 50 Best Science Fiction Movies of All Time

The advent of cinema at the end of the 19th century changed the way we saw the world. Those first images flickering across the screen were simply shots of every...

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...

Top 25 Military SciFi Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Military SciFi Books

Military Science Fiction is a subgenre that has always been around. Maybe it’s the fact that getting all those rockets, robots, and blasters would obviously require immense amounts of governmental...

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King David's Spaceship

King David's Spaceship

Jerry Pournelle was one of the best-known writers of Military Science Fiction of the 1970s. His stories, both solo and with co-authors like Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, almost all...

Jerry Pournelle Buy on Amazon
11/22/63

11/22/63

Stephen King's science fiction work is proof that he really did stop sucking. Running Man, The Cell, and 11/22/63 are some of the best novels I've ever read, and honestly...

Stephen King Buy on Amazon
Robopocalypse

Robopocalypse

I, for one, welcome our new overlords! (You know you're getting old when you feel you need to explain that H.G. Wells is actually behind a super-popular The Simpsons reference.)...

Daniel H. Wilson Buy on Amazon
Blind Waves

Blind Waves

Nifft was a thief and a rogue. Nifft is dead. This is kind of an epitaph in four short tales. You decide whether you'd ever let Nifft get close to...

Steven Gould Buy on Amazon
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (cover not available)

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

There are few films that impart a sense of spirituality like Close Encounters does. The story of humanity's first contact with aliens, and the individuals who become obsessed with the...

Steven Spielberg Buy on Amazon
E.t. – The Extra-terrestrial (cover not available)

E.t. – The Extra-terrestrial

Steven Spielberg was in the middle of re-defining what a science fiction film could do. It was the rare piece of cinematic scifi that managed to give both the sense...

Steven Spielberg Buy on Amazon
Cadillacs And Dinosaurs (cover not available)

Cadillacs And Dinosaurs

TV series don't deal with political issues, right? Neither do cartoons. Nor comic books. Nor science fiction. None of those are the kinds of places where you might try and...

Steven E. De Souza, And Mark Schultz Buy on Amazon
Amazing Stories (cover not available)

Amazing Stories

Steven Spielberg was at the top of his game when he brought Amazing Stories to television in 1985. The magazine that helped define how science fiction would evolve, and which...

Steven Spielberg, Joshua Brand, John Falsey Buy on Amazon
Appleseed (cover not available)

Appleseed

Appleseed dwells in that arena of anime you can call Noir Cyberpunk. It's another OVA and one that is powerful in the use of nihilism. The story of the experimental...

Shinji Aramaki & Steven Foster 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
Immune Response (cover not available)

Immune Response

Suppose someone financed a project to create a drug-and-virus cocktail that could make people essentially immortal. Pop a capsule of the mix and Bob's your uncle. No more illness, quick...

Steve Perry Buy on Amazon
The Outer Limits (cover not available)

The Outer Limits

The Twilight Zone's little brother, The Outer Limits, takes everything that made the former great, and then adds in a touch more science fiction to the mix. Like The Twilight...

Leslie Stevens Buy on Amazon
In Enemy Hands

In Enemy Hands

Book seven in the Honor Harrington Series. Follows Honor Among Enemies. The events leading up to her capture and her terrible treatment at the hands of State Security. Precedes Echoes...

David Weber Buy on Amazon
The Loosening Skin (cover not available)

The Loosening Skin

In a world where people shed their skin every seven years and lose their attachments with it, Rose Allington has a syndrome that makes her moult far more often. Years...

Aliya Whiteley Buy on Amazon
Justice League Of America

Justice League Of America

Following the events of Throne of Atlantis, it is deemed nessesary to create a new Justice League. This new superhero team is under the command of Col. Steve Travor, of...

Alan Davis Buy on Amazon
The End of October

The End of October

"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of...

Lawrence Wright Buy on Amazon
Transit (cover not available)

Transit

First published published in 1964, this novel it hasn't lost anything of its appeal 40+ years later, mainly because its themes are timeless. Two men and two women are abducted...

Edmund Cooper Buy on Amazon
Cyborg

Cyborg

Frederik Pohl’s Man Plus is, to say the least, ambiguous about the benefits of cyborgisation. But that is not how most people see it. The most popular examples of the...

Martin Caidin Buy on Amazon
Sourcery

Sourcery

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's...

Terry Pratchett Buy on Amazon
High Crystal

High Crystal

High in the Andes is an impossible highway, more than two miles above sea level, built of rocks smooth as marble. Who built it? How were such huge slabs of...

Martin Caidin Buy on Amazon

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