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Documentaries

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Here is an update to this list. I’m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here. Best of the best The Battle Over Citizen Kane Bowling for Columbine Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Eden: Untamed Planet The Elephant Queen Endurance Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 11/9 The Fog of War For […]

TV movies, miniseries & specials

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Here’s an update to this list. Best of the best 11.22.63 Anne of Green Gables (1985) Ascension Babylon 5: In the Beginning Babylon 5: The Road Home Battlestar Galactica (2003) Bodies Devs The English The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Friends: The Reunion The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Hawkeye The Miniaturist A Murder […]

SF & fantasy TV shows

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Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 3rd Rock from the Sun 5 5 5 5 5 4.5           4.92 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5         4.86 Andor 5 5                   5 Angel 5 5 […]

TV shows

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Here is an update to this list. Comedy Best of the best Abbott Elementary Arrested Development (the first 3 seasons) The Big Bang Theory Black Ops Garfunkel and Oates The IT Crowd (the first 2 seasons) A Man on the Inside Modern Family Mr. Bean New Girl (the first 2 seasons) Parks and Recreation Raising […]

Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year

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Here’s an update to this list.  Year Winner Runner Ups 2025 Superman Captain America: Brave New World     The Fantastic Four: First Steps     The Gorge     Thunderbolts* 2024 IF Beetlejuice Beetlejuice     Deadpool & Wolverine     Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire     The Life of Chuck     The Watchers […]

Best tie-in novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2025 Greg Cox TOS: Identity Theft David Mack SNW: Ring of Fire       James Swallow SNW: Toward the Night 2024 David Mack PICARD: Firewall Greg Cox TOS: Lost to Eternity       Una McCormack SNW: Asylum   […]

Best science fiction novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.    Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2025 Adrian Tchaikovsky Shroud Mur Lafferty Infinite Archive       John Scalzi The Shattering Peace       John Scalzi When the Moon Hits Your Eye 2024 Dennis E. Taylor Not Till We Are Lost Sue Burke Usurpation 2023 […]

Best fantasy novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner   Runner Ups   Year Author Title Author Title 2025 Travis Baldree Brigands & Breadknives     2024 Matt Haig The Life Impossible     2023 Alix E. Harrow Starling House Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust       James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik […]

Author discovery of the year

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Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Martha Wells for The Murderbot Diaries. Runner ups are Beth Revi for Chaotic Orbits, Joe Hart for Obscura, Nina Kiriki Hoffman for Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes, and Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann for Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes. Further runner ups are Ryan North […]

DC Universes

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DCU The 1st movie of this new universe, Superman, bodes well for the new direction. Superman 2025 -> 5/5 Supergirl 2026 Clayface 2026 DCEU This universe has concluded and the new DCU universe has taken over starting in 2025. Justice League movies Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 -> 4/5 Justice League 2017 -> […]