Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
Frank Poole is recovered a thousand years after HAL threw him into space, and wakes in a ring city built around the Earth.
Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.
A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
Heywood Floyd lands on Halley's Comet, then a hijacking puts him down on Europa, the one world humanity was warned to stay away from.
Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.
Mobile infantry against the Bugs and a lecture on citizenship; Verhoeven turned it inside out.
Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia and fights a virus in the Metaverse; the word comes from here.
A travelling Shakespeare troupe twenty years after a flu killed the world.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
Earth colonises Mars in linked stories; Bradbury's melancholy frontier.
The Axis won and America is divided; Dick's alternate history.
An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.
Soldiers return from each battle to an Earth centuries older; Haldeman's Vietnam in space.
A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.
Cheng Xin and the end of the universe; the trilogy goes to the largest scale in fiction.
Two constructor robots build machines that write poetry and simulate kingdoms; Lem's comic fables.
A fifty-kilometre cylinder enters the solar system and a crew goes inside; Clarke's purest wonder.
Seven pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the Shrike; The Canterbury Tales in space.
Wallfacers, the dark forest theory and the Trisolaran fleet.
A boy trains for a war against the buggers in a battle room; the ending is the point.
Stalkers loot an alien Zone for artefacts; the Strugatskys' novel behind Tarkovsky's film.
Case, Molly and the matrix; Gibson invented cyberspace in 1984.
A world of periodic apocalypses and the people who can quell earthquakes; three consecutive Hugos.
The three laws of robotics in nine stories; Susan Calvin and the machines.
Charlie Gordon's IQ goes from 68 to 185 and back, in his own progress reports.
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