GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE
Sci-fi comedy with some provocative concepts and an unfocused narrative
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
The basis for BLADE RUNNER (1982), and one of Dick’s most famous novels
RABID
David Cronenberg’s second feature, which stands as an interesting companion-piece to his first, the notorious SHIVERS
2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN
The magnum opus of France’s Philippe Caza, a 528 page graphic novel whose inception spanned the years 1989 to 2008
DARKENING ISLAND
A long out-of-print SF novel that’s attained newfound popularity in the 2020s. Why? Its premise, involving a future England overtaken by foreign refugees, now has a resonance it didn’t possess back in 1972
HUMANIMALITY
A self-proclaimed “hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relationship with its animality, & so its relation to animals, the earth, and ultimately the cosmos”
CHERRY 2000
Above-average Maxploitation madness from 1986
A VIEWING GUIDE TO THE PANDEMIC: DEPICTIONS OF PLAGUE AND PANDEMIC ON FILM AND TV
A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies
HUMAN ANIMALS
A little-known Spanish made post-apocalyptic drama, of primary interest due to its complete lack of dialogue