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I love Sci fi but I'm very picky (discuss.online)
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Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don't enjoy at all. It's a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it's changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The common factor seems to be more grounded Earth-based sci-fi with a smidge of horror and perhaps some mystery, rather than space battles.

In that case, films and TV:

  • Early Cronenberg up to eXistenZ (perhaps Crimes of the Future, if you really like that)
  • Society
  • The Faculty
  • Save the Green Planet
  • Under the Skin
  • They Live
  • The Mist
  • A Quiet Place
  • Cube series
  • Slither
  • Splice
  • Splinter
  • The Reanimator series
  • From Beyond
  • Phantasm series
  • Tetsuo
  • Cloverfield (and 10 Cloverfield Lane)
  • The Host
  • Predator series
  • The Void
  • Fringe TV series, as you liked The X-Files. I presume you have watched Millennium?
  • BrainDead (2016 TV series)
  • The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker TV series
  • Truthseekers (2020 TV series)
  • Lovecraft Country - book and series
  • Eerie Indiana
  • Ultraviolet (1998 UK TV series)
  • Tokyo Gore Police and others by the same team, like Meatball Machine and Machine Girl
  • Gantz
  • The Girl With All the Gifts - book and series
  • Timecrimes
  • Pi
  • Bad Taste
  • Grabbers
  • Body Melt
  • Wild Zero
  • Pontypool
  • The Objective
  • District 9
  • Firebase and have a look at the others they have done, especially Zygote
  • Love, Death and Robots
  • Matango
  • Xtro
  • John Dies at the End - read the books first
  • Frankenstein's Army
  • Overlord
  • Quatermass and the Pit, as well as other Quatermass films and series
  • The Deadly Spawn
  • The Man With X-ray Eyes
  • Village of the Damned (1960)
  • The Illustrated Man (1969)
  • Take Shelter

And one with spaceships in it: Starship Troopers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That goes a little too hard into horror, so also try:

  • The Truman Show
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Looper
  • Source Code
  • Minority Report
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Donnie Darko
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Dark City
  • Being John Malkovich

Although they are all pretty obvious. Might have to ponder this more.

edit: also:

  • The Arrival (1996) - instead of Arrival that I'll assume you've seen
  • Resident Alien - TV series and comics
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties
  • Rupture (2016)
  • The Watch (2012)
  • Alien Raiders (2008)
  • Threshold (2005 TV series)
  • Invasion (2005 TV series)
  • The Forgotten (2004)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a great list!

12 monkeys is also a series. It's not as good as the movie, but still amazing.

Edit: more into the light scifi genre, Jennifer Government

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Adding to this, Devolution by Max Brooks. Book only

I also like earth based hard sci-fi with some mystery and horror. This book hits all three points, and is very character driven on top of that.