Dune – Book 1

On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world. The only thing of value is the ‘spice’ melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. It’s a prize worth killing for. And when House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.

Dune Messiah – Book 2

Paul Atreides is better known and feared as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty.

Children Of Dune – Book 3

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities. Thus making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides. But Alia’s rule is not absolute as she faces treason on two fronts.

God Emperor Of Dune – Book 4

Millenia have passed on Arrakis and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. And his rule is not a benevolent one. A rebellion is rising.

Heretics Of Dune – Book 5

The Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis has reverted to its desert climate. Now the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. A girl named Sheena rises to prominence in the wastelands, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy.

Chapterhouse Dune – Book 6

The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest – the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.

Hunters Of Dune (Dune Sequels Book 1, The Dune Sequence Book 7)

At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune–Frank Herbert’s final novel–a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy.

As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan’s no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune’s past—including Paul Muad’Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Failure is unthinkable–not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.

Sandworms Of Dune (Dune Sequels Book 2, The Dune Sequence Book 8)

At the end of Frank Herbert’s final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune’s past–including Paul Muad’Dib and Lady Jessica–to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Based directly on Frank Herbert’s final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine.

Sisterhood Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 1)

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus, flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen, convicted of cowardice, was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil, and his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes.

Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly “spacefolder ships”.

Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so, decades after the defeat of the thinking machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets, with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges…

Mentats Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 2)

Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal—to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family’s downfall.

Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo’s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . .

The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s future—whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.

Navigators Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 1)

The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These events have far-reaching consequences that will set the stage for Dune, millennia later.

The Butlerian Jihad (The Legends Of Dune Book 1)

Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier’s fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.

The Machine Crusade (The Legends Of Dune Book 2)

The first battle was a victory. But the war is just beginning . . .

Earth is a radioactive ruin. But the initial campaign of the Butlerian Jihad has given new hope to mankind. Serena
Butler, whose murdered child has become a symbol for oppressed humanity, inspires a war against the thinking computers led by Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides.

But four of the Titans – murderous machines with human brains and human cunning – still remain. And the universal computer mind, Omnius, still wields most of its power.

The Battle Of Corrin (The Schools Of Dune Book 3)

It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.

Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets . . . and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.

In the greatest battle in science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time. . . . And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad’Dib in Frank Herbert’s classic, Dune.

Paul Of Dune (Heroes Of Dune Book 1)

The Muad’Dib’s jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies–those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. . . .

And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?

The Winds Of Dune (Heroes Of Dune Book 2)

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.

Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul’s former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Anderson’s newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.

The Duke Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1)

While Leto tries to raise Paul to be a worthy leader, a deadly new drug from the deep forests of Caladan spreads and kills … a dark stain on Atreides honor.

At the same time, a revolutionary movement seeks to destroy the Corrino empire that has stood for ten thousand years. With increasing desperation, this rebellion turns to acts of unspeakable violence. And one rebel leader will stop at nothing to recruit Leto to their cause.

Can Duke Leto survive with his legendary honor—and his family—intact? 

The Duke of Caladan tells the intertwined stories of some of the most revered characters in science fiction.

The Lady Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 2)

In the year before DUNE, House Atreides is torn apart, caught in power plays among the Imperium, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the CHOAM Company, and House Harkonnen. 

Lady Jessica, mother of Paul and consort to Leto Atreides, is torn from her home and her family. Her choices will shape an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. Refusing to become a pawn, she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the love of her own family.

Duke Leto must stand up to corruption and disgrace, refusing to become a pawn in a violent uprising bent on bringing down Emperor Shaddam IV.

Paul, the heir to Caladan, stands with his friends and protectors—Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck, and Thufir Hawat—and he must learn to become a true leader before House Atreides spirals out of control.

Meanwhile, complex schemes in the sprawling, corrupt Imperium are accelerating, pulling Lady Jessica, Duke Leto, and Paul on a collision course with destiny.

The Heir Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 3)

He is Paul Atreides. The son of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica, the heir of Caladan. He will become the fabled Muad’Dib.

Before he set foot on the sands of Arrakis, Paul was forged into the young man who would become a great leader, a hero … even a tyrant. Just as he turns fifteen years old, Paul is faced with turbulent crises on Caladan—political turmoil, as well as the unraveling of his family.

Young Paul is left to serve as the steward to Caladan, his beloved and beautiful world … and in preparation for that, the young man has been trained in mental acuity by the warrior Mentat Thufir Hawat, pushed to the extremes of his abilities by the faithful Swordmaster Duncan Idaho, and taught in natural science by the Suk Doctor Wellington Yueh, who harbors his own dark secret.

Paul must meet every challenge, grow and become strong enough to protect a world … but the heir of Caladan does not know that these trials will shape him into the man who will conquer an entire Imperium.

Quantum Leap

Get ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam does it all in Season One of the groundbreaking, 5-time Emmy award-winning series.

This sci fi series ran for five seasons from 1989 to 1993. This show has it all – humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. What more could you ask for!

The X-Files

The truth is out there. FBI agents Scully and Mulder seek it in this sci-fi phenomenon about their quest to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien encounters and abductions, and just about everything else among the paranormal.

This could be a case for Mulder and Scully! There are a total of eleven seasons available so this series will keep you occupied for a while. And this show is now a cult classic with a huge fanbase – so what are you waiting for – the truth is out there!

Star Trek The Next Generation

Decades after the adventures of the original Enterprise crew, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard leads a new Enterprise on missions to explore unknown worlds.

This sci fi series aired 1987 to 1994 with 178 episodes over seven seasons. This is the third series in the Star Trek TV series franchise. The show has been immensely popular and the series finale had a viewership of 30 million. So whether you are a Star Trek fan or not then give this series a watch!

The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling’s seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations.

This is an anthology sci fi show than ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1963, there were also two movies made. This show has been ranked as one of the best TV shows of all time. It has spawned a whole franchise and is often referenced in popular culture. Definitely one not to miss!

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS.

The Book Of Boba Fett

Bounty hunter Boba Fett & mercenary Fennec Shand navigate the underworld when they return to Tatooine to claim Jabba the Hutt’s old turf.

This is another space western TV series in the Star Wars franchise and is a spin off of the aforementioned The Mandalorian. The show also is set directly after Return Of The Jedi and stars Temuera Morrison as the title character. So far there is only one series but it is highly expected that there will be more!

Loki

The mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief in a new series that takes place after the events of “Avengers: Endgame.”

This is the third TV series in the MCU Franchise and has Tom Hiddleston reprising his role from the movies as the titular character. There has only been one series so far but a second is in the making. The show has been a big hit with critics and fans alike. With praise has been high for the acting performance, musical score and visuals. An amazing series that you don’t want to miss!

The Orville

From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane, THE ORVILLE is a live-action, one-hour space adventure series set 400 years in the future that follows The Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of everyday life.

This is a sci fi comedy drama, there are two seasons available so far with a third series arriving on Hulu in June 2022. Although the first season was generally negatively reviewed. But series two was considered to be much improved. So this means that season three can only get better!

Snowpiercer

Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train, with 1001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation.

This is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller which is based on both the movie of the same name and the book Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob. There are currently three seasons available and a fourth series has just been confirmed.

Doom Patrol

DOOM PATROL reimagines one of DC’s most beloved groups of Super Heroes: Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman and Crazy Jane, led by modern-day mad scientist Niles Caulder aka The Chief. Called to action by Cyborg aka Vic Stone, the Doom Patrol – part support group, part Super Hero team – is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them.

This superhero TV show is based on the DC comics of the same name. There are three seasons available already and a fourth series has been confirmed. And every season has been well received, with each season only getting better. So watch this now before season four hits!

Altered Carbon

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Starring: Anthony Mackie, Lela Loren, Simone Missick

This cyberpunk series is based on the book of the same name by Richard K. Morgan. After the first season a second series was quickly confirmed. But despite the show receiving mostly positive reviews the third season was cancelled. Despite this then it is still definitely worth watching the two season that have been made of this amazing book adaption.

Taken

The series follows a former Green Beret, Bryan Mills, as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

This is a TV mini series directed by Steven Spielberg. It follows the lives of three families as they try to cover up the Roswell crash. The show aired in 2002 and was very popular at the time and received many positive reviews.

Battlestar Galactica

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet – the last of humanity – as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

The original Battlestar Galactica ran from 1978 – 1980 and was rebooted from 2003 – 2012.

Cowboy Bebop (1998)

iMDB: 8.9/10

In search of his love Julia and his enemy Vicious, Spike works on the spaceship Bebop as a bounty hunter – known as Cowboys. Spike and Jet, a former ISSP (Inter Solar System Police) officer, are working together hunting criminals. They are later joined by Ed, Ein, and Faye Valentine.

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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (2001)

iMDB: 7.9/10

Days before Halloween, a man explodes a truck in Mars’ capital city, spreading a new pathogen that kills and sickens over 300 people. In response, a record bounty of 300 million woolong is placed on the culprit’s capture. So, after Faye spots the terrorist, the Bebop crew decide to take on the bounty.

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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

iMDB: 6.8/10

Starring: John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda, Elena Satine, and Alex Hassell

In 2021, a live action remake of the original anime was released on Netflix. Although it has not been as well received as the original, it’s received a lot of praise for its cast. Netflix has recently confirmed that it has cancelled any further series of the live action remake. So we won’t be getting any more of this series. Check out the trailer below!

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Parable Of The Sower

A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

“A stunner.” —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture. A culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path. Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed. She is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety. Along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

Parable Of The Talent (Book 2)

Parable Of The Talent was published in 1998 and the second book in the Parable series.

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches ‘God Is Change’. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers – or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

Cowboy Bebop (1998)

In search of his love Julia and his enemy Vicious, Spike works on the spaceship Bebop. He works as a bounty hunter – known as Cowboys – with Jet, a former ISSP (Inter Solar System Police) officer. They are later joined by Ed, an eccentric young girl skilled in hacking; Ein, a genetically modified Welsh Corgi; and Faye Valentine, an amnesiac con artist. All of which embody the three things that Spike hates: kids, animals, and women with attitudes.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009-2012)

After their single mother died of a lingering illness, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, traveled the world. They wanted to learn more about alchemy to raise their mother from the dead. But it’s impossible to do correctly. The transmutation leaves Al without a body and Ed without his left leg and his right arm. With prosthetics made for Ed and Al’s soul in a suit of amour, they burn down their home. And become State Alchemists in an attempt to find the Philosopher’s Stone and regain their full bodies back.

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One Punch Man (2015-2019)

Saitama is a superhero who can defeat any opponent with just a single punch. But after growing bored of the lack of challenge, he seeks out a worthy opponent. So Saitama becomes a reluctant mentor of Genos, a cyborg seeking revenge against another cyborg who killed his family and destroyed his hometown.

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Steins;Gate (2011-2015)

Rintaro Okabe – a self-proclaimed “mad scientist” – and his friends accidentally discover a method of time travel. They can send text messages to the past, thereby changing the present.

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No. 6 (2011-)

In a dystopian city known as No. 6, Shion – a boy raised in the elite and privileged environment of his home – gives shelter to another boy, Nezumi. What Shion soon discovers is how drastically his life will change after meeting with the mysterious Nezumi.

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Darling in the Franxx (2018)

Set in a dystopian future where children are artificially created and made to defend the remnants of civilization, the story follows a squad of ten pilots. Particularly the partnership between former prodigy Hiro and Zero Two, a hybrid human and elite pilot.

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Plastic Memories (2019)

Humans and androids with human-like appearances live side by side. SAI Corp, the leading android production company, introduce Giftia – the most human-like androids. But they have a lifespan of roughly nine years and four months. Tsukasa Mizugaki is the newest member of Terminal Service One – who collects Giftias when they reach the end of their life spans.

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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K (2016-)

To the average person, psychic powers may seem like a great gift, but to Saiki Kusou, they’re more of an annoyance. Saiki wants to be a normal high school student and avoid attention. But that’s difficult when you’re a super-powerful psychic and situations where you need to use your powers always seem to arise.

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Gintama (2005-2018)

Set in the Edo period, humanity has been conquered by aliens named Amanto. Gintoki Sakata is a samurai who works as a freelancer, alongside his friends Sinpachi Shimura and Kagura, in order to pay the monthly rent.

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Dr Stone (2019-)

In the year 2038 AD, a mysterious flash suddenly petrifies nearly all human life. 3,700 years pass with the human race frozen in stone until a 15-year-old scientific prodigy, Senku Ishigami, is suddenly revived. Alone in the world, Senku experiments with ways to rebuild humanity again.

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Code Geass (2006-2012)

The Holy Empire of Britannia conquered the country known as Japan and now call it Area 11. Its residents lost their rights to self-govern and are now called Elevens. The Empire uses destructive robotic weapons to ensure control, but someone is about to stand up to it. Lelouch, the black prince, can use the power of the Geass to build a world based on his ideals.

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Parasyte (2014-2015)

All of a sudden parasitic aliens descended upon Earth and quickly infiltrated by burrowing into the brains of vulnerable victims. They acquire full control of their hosts and can morph into a variety of forms. High school student Shinichi Izumi is one of those victims, but quick thinking meant that the parasite didn’t reach his brain. But now his right hand is infected instead.

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PSYCHO-PASS (2012-)

In the 22nd century, there is the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state for signs of criminal intent – also known as their Psycho-Pass. Akane Tsunemori is a novice Inspector. However, as she works alongside veteran Enforcer Shinya Kougami, she soon learns that the Sibyl System’s judgments are not as perfect as her fellow Inspectors assume.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)

Fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, Shinji is a teenage boy who was recruited by his father to the shadowy organization Nerv. This is where he’ll need to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named Evangelion into combat against beings known as Angels.

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Inuyashiki (2017)

Inuyaskiki Ichiro was struck by an explosion of extraterrestrial origin and his body is replaced by an incredibly powerful mechanical body. He dedicates himself to using his powers to do good. However, the teenager with him at the time of the explosion, Shishigami Hiro, had the same fate. But Hiro uses his newfound abilities to murder various people for amusement.

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Ergo Proxy (2006)

Within the domed city of Romdo lies one of the last human civilizations on Earth. Humanoid-like robots have been created to assist. However, they have begun contracting a disease which grants them self-awareness. Re-l Mayer is assigned to investigate this phenomenon.

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Gurren Lagann (2007)

Simon and Kamina were born and raised in a deep, underground village. One day while excavating the earth, Simon stumbles upon a mysterious object that turns out to be the ignition key to an ancient artifact of war. So, Simon and Kamina to set off on a journey alongside Yoko to explore the wastelands of the surface.

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Sword Art Online (2012-)

Sword Art Online, or “SAO,” is a video game. It offers a VR gateway into the wondrous world of Aincrad. However, the idyllic fantasy rapidly becomes a brutal nightmare when SAO’s creator traps thousands of players inside the game. So they are unable to return to the real world.

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Outlaw Star (1998)

Gene Starwind has always dreamed of piloting his own ship out into the vast sea of stars. Unfortunately, not all dreams come true. He spends his days working odd jobs alongside his partner, James Hawking, on the small planet Sentinel III instead. However, this all takes a turn when the duo takes on a job from Rachel Sweet.

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Promised Neverland (2019-2021)

Three gifted children of an idyllic orphanage accidentally discover the sinister purpose that they were raised for. They know the need to escape, but time is running out as one of them is about to be ‘adopted’. But they need to come up with a plan in time that lets them all escape with the younger children.

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1984 – George Orwell

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger simply because his memory still functions.

The War Of The Worlds – HG Wells

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later.

The Time Machine – HG Wells

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701. The world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss. But as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class.

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

In a technologically-advanced future, humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order. At the cost of their freedom, full humanity and perhaps also their souls.

Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag returns each day to his bland life and wife, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert A. Heinleinl

Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever…

The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn. First a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars and then is conquered by it. Lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids.

Frankenstein – Mary Shelly

Committed science student Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. So, he assembles a human being from stolen body parts but – upon bringing it to life – he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. And then the once-innocent creature turns evil.

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States – now known as the Republic of Gilead. A monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

First published in 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea remains one of the most widely read adventure novels. The story follows the experiences of marine biologist Pierre Arronax and his companions, as guests – or prisoners – aboard the startlingly advanced submarine Nautilus under the command of the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Parable Of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler 

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

Ringworld – Larry Niven

Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin – a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats — are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Its origins are shrouded in mystery.

The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin

A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet Urras. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust..

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

When German professor Otto Liedenbrock finds a coded message in an original runic manuscript of Snorri Sturluson’s Icelandic saga, Heimskringla, he discovers what he believes to be a secret passage to the center of the Earth. Professor Liedenbrock embarks immediately for Iceland on a journey of scientific discovery to prove his belief.

The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury

You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.

Kindred – Octavia E. Butler

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

The Invisible Man – HG Wells

A mysterious man named Griffen appears in a snowstorm at the local inn of the English village of Iping. Rarely emerging from his room, Griffen works continuously with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus. He’s a former medical student who has invented a chemical process to render bodies invisible. Having impulsively tried the formula upon himself, Griffen turns to crime to continue his experiments. 

The Man In The High Castle – Philip K Dick

It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the bureaucracy and Japan’s with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank’s ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes.

The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

Bill Masen misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. But the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, someone else who managed to retain their sight. Together they leave the city and try to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just eighty days, right down to the minute. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea—by steamer, rail, and elephant—to win the bet of a lifetime.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Henry Jekyll no longer wants to inhibit his dark side. He concocts a potion to create the alter ego of Mr. Edward Hyde. With the burden of evil placed on Hyde, Jekyll can now take pleasure in his immoral, nefarious fantasies—free of conscience and guilt. It’s when Hyde turns to murder that Jekyll realizes how monstrous his impulses are and how hard they are to suppress.

2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke

The crew of the spacecraft Discovery are embarking on a mission to Saturn. Their vessel is controlled by HAL 9000. It’s an artificially intelligent supercomputer capable of the highest level of cognitive functioning that rivals—and perhaps threatens—the human mind.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent. Until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route. And Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse.