Space colonization stories test humanity by exporting it: what survives the trip, and what we cannot help bringing along. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction about settling other worlds.
Book ReviewsSpace will kill you in dozens of ways, and Paul Sutter's astrophysics guide lays out exactly how each one works. The framing, a travel guide organized by lethality rather than physics, forces the specifics that most space writing skips, from…
Artificial IntelligenceMELISSA, a three-year-old artificial intelligence, narrates how humanity took the solar system, starting with the hundred and forty million she decided to let die.
EnvironmentalEarth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.
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…
2010sNewly discovered 65mm footage of 1969 moon landing. Apollo 11 is Todd Douglas Miller's 2019 American documentary depicting the July 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing mission through previously unreleased seventy-millimeter footage from NASA archives combined with mission audio.
2000sAndrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth.
1970s1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism.
1980sSeen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
1960sBarbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…
1990s
2020sLightyear is the Pixar feature framed as the in-universe movie that made Andy from Toy Story want a Buzz Lightyear action figure. MacLane and Jason Headley wrote.
2010sThe Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.
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