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Starships, distant worlds and crews who definitely skipped the safety briefing.
16 matching guides Action Sci-FiExplosions, impossible missions and heroes who regard breathable atmospheres as optional.
18 matching guides Alien EncountersFirst contact, invasions and visitors whose motives remain inconveniently vague.
11 matching guides Time TravelLoops, paradoxes and people making history considerably more complicated.
9 matching guides Dystopian FuturesBroken societies, sealed worlds and governments with extremely reassuring slogans.
27 matching guides AI & CyberpunkArtificial minds, digital worlds and technology quietly updating its plans for humanity.
14 matching guides Mind-Bending Sci-FiConspiracies, fractured realities and questions that arrive with three more questions.
34 matching guides Retro Sci-FiAnalogue futures, practical effects and control panels containing heroic quantities of switches.
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1990s
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: This time, the Terminator isn’t here to kill Sarah Connor — he’s here to babysit her son, John. Meanwhile,…
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1990s
Starship Troopers
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where citizenship is earned through military service, a handsome idiot and his high school friends sign…
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1980s
The Abyss
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When a nuclear sub sinks near the Cayman Trough, a civilian diving crew teams up with the military to…
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2020s
Mercy
Byte-Sized Overview: In Los Angeles in 2029, criminal justice has finally achieved maximum efficiency by removing lawyers, juries, lengthy trials and apparently…
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2020s
Project Hail Mary
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes aboard a spacecraft with two dead crewmates, no memory and absolutely no recollection of…
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2020s
The Tomorrow War
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When time travelers from 2051 interrupt the World Cup (rude) to announce that humanity is about to be wiped…
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2000s
Jumper
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: David Rice discovers he can teleport — and naturally does what any teenage loner would: abandon school, rob a…
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2010s
Riddick
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: After being betrayed and stranded on a sun-scorched hellhole of a planet, Riddick goes full survival mode. He fights…
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2000s
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When Joel discovers his ex-girlfriend Clementine has had all memories of their relationship erased, he impulsively decides to do…
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2010s
Chronicle
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When three high schoolers discover a glowing alien thing in a hole (as one does), they gain telekinetic powers.…
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2020s
Moonfall
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: The Moon has left the chat. It’s not orbiting — it’s plunging straight toward Earth. Cue rogue astronauts, unlikely…
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