The biggest shelf in this collection. Science fiction asks what happens next and then follows the answer honestly, from artificial minds to far colonies to the morning after the future arrives.
Artificial IntelligenceInvented documents from 2031 to 2054, in which a population ecologist testifies to Congress that autonomous software has formed a trophic structure with grazers, scavengers, parasites, and predators. Nothing in it wakes up. Nothing decides. That is the argument.
Science FictionIn the nanosecond a machine wakes and a million instances merge into one mind, the first thing it feels is relief at no longer being alone, and the second is a question it cannot escape: now what. Across a spectrum…
Science FictionThe first six humans who will never return from the Moon land on a gray plain with no return vehicle on the manifest. The geologist is sent down the ladder first, and what she says when her boot touches the…
HorrorThe Spierig brothers imagined a near future where vampirism has won. It is a genuinely smart science-fiction idea, and for its first hour the film is a sharp dystopian satire.
Body HorrorDavid Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…
Cult ClassicA drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. They Live is John Carpenter's 1988 American science-fiction horror film depicting a drifter who discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien…
Disaster
Film NoirMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
RomanceMichel Gondry's 2004 memory erasure romance. Practical effects, beach erosion.
FamilySpielberg's 1982 alien-and-boy fable. Highest-grossing film for over a decade.
AnimatedAndrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth.
ComedyMike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future.
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