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Every guide we have published, across books, films, TV and concepts, newest first. Short, spoiler-light and written to help you decide what is worth your time.
The Expanse: the most convincing solar system on television
The most convincing spacefaring civilisation ever put on television, with a plot that grows honestly out of its politics.
Ex Machina: a test with two subjects in it
Small, precise and genuinely unsettling, with the discipline to end when it should.
The Matrix: a great action film with a real idea inside it
A blockbuster that changed how films were made, and it still holds up. Watch it for the idea first and the fights second.
Arrival: first contact, and the language problem
The best ideas-first science fiction film of its decade, and it respects its own premise to the last shot.
Interstellar: love, gravity and a dying Earth
Better than its detractors allow and messier than its defenders admit. Watch it for the physics and the docking scene.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson: the funniest cyberpunk novel
The funniest and most quotable cyberpunk novel, with one genuine idea under the jokes.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke: first contact as an inspection
First contact as an engineering problem, handled with total assurance, and with the courage to leave the big question open.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick: the novel behind Blade Runner
Messier and better than its reputation suggests, and very different from the film that made it famous.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin: an envoy on the ice
A cold, patient novel that carries more weight in its last hundred pages than most books manage in full.
Neuromancer by William Gibson: the novel that invented cyberspace
Still the founding document of cyberpunk, and still better than most of what it inspired.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin: an ambiguous utopia
One of the great novels of the genre, and one of the few that is genuinely about an idea and also genuinely moving. Short, clear and generous, and it refuses every easy answer it is offered. Read it for the politics and you will find a book about a homesick man who cannot go back.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky: the spiders who inherited a world
A hugely enjoyable and genuinely original novel that gets better as it goes. The spiders are why people remember it, but it works because Tchaikovsky is serious about the question underneath: what makes a civilisation worthy of the world it lives on.
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