Good morning space-people! I thought I'd kick off today with a fun thread: space science fiction! I'll post some of my own favourites (including some movies which I think are underrated) but I would love to hear- what are your favourite sci-fi movies/tv shows/ books ?

Okay so I have to start with my current favourite- 'The Expanse' @ExpanseOnPrime! (Both the tv series & the books- @JamesSACorey, @AbrahamHanover). I LOVE this series for the amazing characters & the portrayal of human struggles & inequalities as we expand into space

Naturally as a Mars person, I love the + the of 'The Martian'!! . To me, it's a warm, funny, 'realistic' (ish ) look at what a real humans-to-Mars programme might look like, + problem-solving when that goes wrong "I'm going to have to science the sh*t out of this."

One of my favourite movies ever is 'Sunshine'. It sometimes gets a bad review, & I understand criticisms of the latter 3rd, but I personally it. It portrays an international crew on a spaceship & explores the psychological aspects of space travel (+ has a great score ).

I really love ‘Passengers’ . Yes, I guess it’s very much Hollywood-does-space, but I like the exploration of what it would mean to be alone on an interstellar voyage across space- how that would feel, the decisions you'd make. Also, the shots of the spaceship are amazing!

So I haven't seen it in years, but I really liked 'Pandorum'! This is sci-fi horror, but again the reason I like it is because it gets into the psychological effects of space travel. (It was originally set to have a prequel + sequel, but unfortunately that never happened )

Finally, I’ll end with two classics. First, the 'Alien' movies! in particular the 2nd movie ('Aliens'), but they're all great. I love the character of Ellen Ripley

And lastly, 'Contact'! I both read the book and watched the film for the first time within the past year, and they're both excellent in their own way (there are some significant differences between the two)

I personally think this last one is science fiction (and by extension, science) at its best: international cooperation, the ‘unknown’, & what that means for us as humans. So tldr; in this thread I've listed some of my favourite sci-fi films/TV. I'd love to hear yours