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Fiction Theory

12 curated works.

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The Expanse

Featured · Television

Humanity has colonized the solar system. Hard sci-fi's best adaptation, class warfare in space.

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Fiction Theory

Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.

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Truth & Fiction

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The Expanse

Television

The Expanse

Carries a strong pull into film through power and urban isolation.

For All Mankind

Television

For All Mankind

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The Handmaid's Tale

A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.

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In space, no one can hear you scream. Science fiction as haunted-house horror.

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Foundation

Television · Strong bridge

Asimov's galactic saga adapted. The fall and rebirth of civilization across millennia.

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A Black woman is pulled back to antebellum Maryland. Time travel as confrontation with slavery.

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A farmer-pilot enters a wormhole to save humanity. Love across dimensions of space and time.

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What if the Soviets reached the moon first? Alternate history as space drama.

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The Three-Body Problem

First contact begins during the Cultural Revolution. Hard sci-fi with Chinese political history.

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A Clockwork Orange

Ultra-violence and behavioral conditioning. Free will versus state control in a dystopian Britain.

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A boy becomes the messiah of a desert planet. Ecology, religion, and the dangers of hero worship.

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