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For All Mankind: the space race that never ended
The best alternate history on television, and a genuinely moving series about what ambition…
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For All Mankind: the space race that never ended
The best alternate history on television, and a genuinely moving series about what ambition costs.
Severance: work and life, surgically separated
The best high-concept series on television, built on one clear idea and executed with total control.
What is the Fermi paradox? The silence of a crowded galaxy
A puzzle about our own assumptions rather than about aliens, and the most productive question in the genre.
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What is a Dyson sphere? Surrounding a star for its power
A serious proposal that became a science fiction image, and almost nobody remembers the version its author put forward.
What is space opera? Empires, fleets and the largest scale
The name was invented as a joke. Eighty years later the genre has outgrown the sneer.
What is cyberpunk? The genre of neon and corporations
Not a prediction that came true. A mood about the 1980s, written while the decade was happening.
Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey: The Expanse, book two
Better than the first book and one of the best political thrillers the genre has produced.
The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams: an empire loses its emperor
Naval adventure in vacuum, with a genuine interest in how empires end. Read it for the tactics.
Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton: who sealed those stars?
Genuinely enormous and genuinely good, with a comfortable future you will miss once it starts coming apart.
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