Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
{5/5} “You are the least useful person I’ve ever met.” Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, released in 2025 A man walks into a diner and says he’s from the future. Of course, no one believes him. When they don’t pay attention, he says he has a bomb. He knows things about them. He says […]
Jurassic World: Rebirth
{5/5} “‘I’m going to need a number.’ ‘Ten. Six zeroes.’ ‘Including the one that’s in the ten?’” Jurassic World: Rebirth, released in 2025 Years ago at an InGen lab, there was a containment breach and a T-Rex got out. Now virtually all dinosaurs live around the equator and humans aren’t supposed to go there. A […]
Project Hail Mary
{5/5} “The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip your suit.” Project Hail Mary, released in 2026 Ryland Grace wrote a paper in which he said that water wasn’t necessarily required for life. Now he’s teaching, because of the people he ticked off. But now the government wants him on their […]
Alien: Romulus
{5/5} “The safety and well being of our colony is Weyland-Yutani‘s highest priority.” Alien: Romulus, released in 2024 A ship grabs a big rock in space because there’s something Weyland-Yutani wants inside it. But that rock was near the wreck of the Nostromo, and it has something else on it that they haven’t noticed yet. […]
Stranger Things (season 5)
{5/5} “I was looking for answers in somebody else. But I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so… scared. Scared of who I really was. Once I did that, I felt so free. It’s like I could fly.” — Robin Stranger Things season 5, aired in 2025 Many residents of Hawkins […]
SF & fantasy TV shows
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 […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
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
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
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 […]
Author discovery of the year
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 […]