Elias' SF Media Masterlist
An accessible page with a "masterlist" of most (if not all) sci fi media I've consumed so far or have been recommended by others. This all used to be (and still is) in a gdrive spreadsheet but I want to make the entire thing more readable so, here we are.
Disclaimer: (1) I don't find all the media here to be perfect, flawless and worthy of praise (some of it kinda sucks, in retrospective) (2) Not all Sci Fi media in existence is here! I haven't gotten around that yet.
Sci Fi Media Index
Audiovisual: Movies / Shows / Videogames
Audio: Podcasts
Visual: Comics and Visual Novels
Literary: Books, Poems and such
Movies
Given the huge amount of movies I've watched, I'm attaching a table below with the different SF movie lists I've made on my letterboxd in the last couple years
| Find | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| General Masterlist | link | 200+ |
| Animated Movies | link | 40+ |
| Movies w/AI+Robots Focus | link | 50+ |
Shows
Live action shows! Some (most?) of these you might have heard of.
Animated shows. Some of these are for children, others for teens, and some of these might give someone nostalgia.
Videogames
Series/franchises have their wikipedia pages linked while other games have their steam or itch.io stores links (which hopefully work).
Please note that the average length of the games has been added for time-management purposes and in no way has anything to do with the quality of the games.
Podcasts
I'm sure there's more but these are the ones I know about.
| Name | Subgenre | |
|---|---|---|
| Deviser | Sci Fi/Horror | link |
| EOS 10 | Comedy | link |
| Liberty Podcast | Serialized Audio Drama | link |
| Lost Terminal | Hopepunk | link |
| Marsfall | Thriller | link |
| Mission to Zyxx | Comedy/Improv | link |
| SAYER | Narrative Fiction | link |
| Second Star To The Left | Exploration | link |
| Solutions to Problems | Comedy | link |
| Stellar Firma | Comedy/Improv | link |
| VAST Horizon | Audio Drama | link |
| Wolf 359 | Radio Drama | link |
Comics, Visual Novels, etc.
I personally do not have much to offer here, these are mostly recommendations; either from yours truly or someone who recommended me something and I forgot to read it. Let it be known I'm intentionally not listing anything superhero related (but... some of the Venom comics are good).
| Name | Other Info | Franchise |
|---|---|---|
| O Sarilho | Archive Here | No (Webcomic) |
| Atomic Robo | Archive Here | No (Webcomic) |
| Across a Field of Starlight | Visual Novel | No |
| More Than Meets The Eye | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Lost Light | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Requiem of The Wreckers | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Sins of The Wreckers | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Till All Are One | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Trigun | Tokuma Shoten | Trigun |
| Trigun Maximum | Shōnen Gahosha | Trigun |
| Windblade | IDW Publishing | Transformers |
| Invader Zim | Oni Press | Invader Zim |
Yes, I had a Transformers phase, can you tell?
Books, Poems, etc.
There are some classic authors here! There's also maybe a couple YA books that have sci-fi elements if that's your thing.
| Author | Title (Year) | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot (1950) | Robot Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation (1951) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation and Empire (1952) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Second Foundation (1953) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | The Caves of Steel (1954) | Robot Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | The Naked Sun (1957) | Robot Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | The Gods Themselves (1972) | |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation's Edge (1982) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | The Robots of Dawn (1983) | Robot Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Robots and Empire (1985) | Robot Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation and Earth (1986) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Prelude to Foundation (1988) | Foundation Series |
| Asimov, Isaac | Nemesis (1989) | |
| Asimov, Isaac | Forward the Foundation (1993) | Foundation Series |
| Bioy Casares, Adolfo | La Invención de Morel (1940) | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheith 451 (1953) | |
| Brautigan, Richard G. | All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Poem - 1967) | |
| Bulychev, Kir | Half a Life and Other Stories (1977) | |
| Cargill, C. Robert | Sea of Rust (2017) | Sea of Rust |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Space Odyssey |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) | Space Odyssey |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 2061: Odyssey Three (1989) | Space Odyssey |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 3001: The Final Odyssey (1999) | Space Odyssey |
| Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games (2008) | The Hunger Games |
| Collins, Suzanne | Catching Fire (2009) | The Hunger Games |
| Collins, Suzanne | Mockingjay (2010) | The Hunger Games |
| Dick, Philip K. | Solar Lottery (1955) | |
| Dick, Philip K. | The Minority Report (1956) | |
| Dick, Philip K. | The Penultimate Truth (1964) | |
| Dick, Philip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) | |
| Dick, Philip K. | A Scanner Darkly (1977) | |
| Egan, Greg | Permutation City (1994) | Subjective Cosmology |
| Egan, Greg | The Best Of Greg Egan (2019) | |
| El-Mohtar & Gladstone | This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) | |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | The Word for World is Forest (1972) | Hainish Cycle |
| Leckie, Ann | Ancillary Justice (2013) | Imperial Radch |
| Leckie, Ann | Ancillary Sword (2014) | Imperial Radch |
| Leckie, Ann | Ancillary Mercy (2015) | Imperial Radch |
| Lem, Stanisław | Solaris (1961) | |
| Lem, Stanisław | The Cyberiad (1965) | |
| Scott, Victoria | Fire & Flood (2014) | Fire & Flood |
| Scott, Victoria | Salt & Stone (2015) | Fire & Flood |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein (1818) | |
| Stephenson, Neal | Snow Crash (1992) | |
| VanderMeer, Jeff | Annihilation (2014) | Southern Reach |
| VanderMeer, Jeff | Authority (2014) | Southern Reach |
| VanderMeer, Jeff | Acceptance (2014) | Southern Reach |
| Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. | Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) | |
| Weir, Andy | The Martian (2011) | |
| Wells, Martha | All Systems Red (2017) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Wells, Martha | Artificial Condition (2018) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Wells, Martha | Rogue Protocol (2018) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Wells, Martha | Exit Strategy (2018) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Wells, Martha | Network Effect (2020) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Wells, Martha | Fugitive Telemetry (2021) | The Murderbot Diaries |