Science Fiction Bucket List

A crashed colony ship on the alien Mira, an open world four times the size of the others, and mechs to cross it.

The crew of the Unity land on Chiron and split into seven ideologies; the best writing in any strategy game.

The war after Judgment Day, with Connor leading the Resistance and a condemned prisoner who does not know what he is.

Batou investigates gynoids that killed their owners; the only anime ever to compete for the Palme d'Or.

Section 9 against the Laughing Man over twenty-six episodes, in a continuity of its own, scored by Yoko Kanno.

Eight strangers on four continents start sharing each other's senses and skills; two seasons and a closing special.

A house cleaner in Chicago turns out to be the heir to a dynasty that farms populated planets.

A paranoid mathematician finds a 216-digit number in the stock market; black-and-white, $60,000.

Villeneuve's Arrakis: the ornithopters, the Sardaukar chant and half the book.

One love story across a conquistador, a scientist and a man in a bubble with a tree.

Paul rides the worm and takes the Fremen south; the half that pays off.

Teenagers pilot bio-machines against Angels while their director has a breakdown on screen.

A device that enters dreams is stolen; the parade sequence Inception took notes from.

Six stories across five centuries with the same actors; the Wachowskis and Tykwer's huge gamble.

Matt Damon grows potatoes on Mars; Ridley Scott's most cheerful film.

Gilliam's bureaucratic dystopia of ducts and paperwork, with a heating engineer as terrorist.

Tarkovsky's sentient ocean planet and a cosmonaut's dead wife returning; the Soviet 2001.

Three men enter the Zone where wishes come true; Tarkovsky's slow masterpiece.

A linguist learns an alien language and it rearranges her sense of time.

Seven crew, one ship, one creature; the haunted house in space that started it all.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe with the Engineers and the origin of the black goo.

Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.