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I love Sci fi but I'm very picky (self.sciencefiction)
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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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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 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)
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 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