Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don’t enjoy at all. It’s a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it’s changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?
Can anyone recommend where I could get short sci-fi horror stories? Even for audio listening like a podcast.
My love for aliens, space, etc was born from Alien, Star Wars, and even wierd movies like Splic despite it being kind of meh.
I absolutely love Arrival, The Martian, Interestellar, and even Ad Astra.
Even more so I love horror being thrown into the mix and I want more of it. My love for sci-fi grew even larger with video games like Halo and more recently Stellaris.
I loved Annihilation and Dune as books. I am almost finished with the last book of The Three Body Problem series and the last book is a tough read. The Dark Forest is easily the best of the three so far.
I saw a massive list on this thread and have book marked it for later but I love listening to sci-fi horror. Every now and again, The No Sleep Podcast will tell a Science Fiction Horror story and I just want more.
https://pseudopod.org/ for horror
or
https://escapepod.org/ for sci-fi
There are a few shows from each that cross over a bit. It’s been years since I listened so I can’t attest to the current quality but I enjoyed it when I listened.
I have a few short story compilations that I like but not many are in the sci-fi horror genre. I did really enjoy Voyage of the Space Beagle which reads kind of like a bunch of short stories. It’s been said that it was one of the inspirations for Alien.