The best sci-fi/fantasy TV and film coming in 2024

New Atlas ^ | January 01, 2024 | By Rich Haridy

[Red Badger]

On the back of COVID-related production delays and massive Hollywood strikes, the next 12 months will be a strange mix of long-awaited content and out-of-the-blue oddities. More than half of last year’s list has yet to appear, so there is likely to be a lot of interesting film and TV to come.

I’m ignoring most of the big franchise stuff as it has recently proved to be utterly disappointing. Instead, we have lots of strange, creative and original work to look forward to including an apocalypse musical, an android exploring human emotions, and a story about a clone who lives forever.

Constellation (Apple TV)

Murderbot (Apple TV)

Dark Matter (Apple TV)

Dune: Prophecy (Max)

Alien (FX)

Mickey 17 (Warner Bros)

Civil War (A24)

The End (Final Cut For Real)

The Electric State (Netflix)

[cgbg]

“brilliant black female scientists”

Science fiction has always sought to make the incredible and even ridiculous believable—but this is a bridge too far!

;-)

[curious7]

Might I recommend H. Beam Piper’s “Lone Star Planet”?

[Angelino97]

I remember Rama II made reference to a brave and brilliant female Mexican astronaut, who saved her entire crew when their spaceship broke down in outer space. I even recall her name. Garcia.

[rxh4n1]

(Bharf ...)

Compare Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” with the Amazon series.

[Gaffer]

I was really disappointed with Part 1 remake of Dune. That little Tim-o-Tay Chalwhatever (and the love interest in it) was the completely wrong choice, IMO.

[shoff]

Silo based on the books starting with Wool, by Hugh Howey are really good.

[Sirius Lee]

The two attempts to do Felipe Jose Farmer’s Riverworld are prime examples of the failure of the Hollyweird crowd to do SciFi. Both attempts were utterly atrocious!

There was a second attempt?

[Red Badger]

Who are also lesbians...............

[telescope115]

How could I forget Asimov’s I Sing the Body Electric? And Ray Bradbury! Bradbury had SUCH a fertile imagination! And Rod Serling!

[telescope115]

I’ve seen The Arrival. I liked it. I didn’t know it was based on a short story. I liked Interstellar, but I thought it was way too long.

[telescope115]

Might I recommend H. Beam Piper’s “Lone Star Planet”?

I will check it out, thanks.

[Gaffer]

“Civil War” looks interesting. But I’m curious as to how Democrat-run cities (nearly every big city in the country) are dealt with in so-called Red States.

[telescope115]

I wish they would make Rendezvous With Rama into a movie, or a series. The same with Ringworld. There’s enough material there for a great series. There is an episode of The Mandalorian where he visits an actual Ringworld.

[telescope115]

The two attempts to do Felipe Jose Farmer’s Riverworld are prime examples of the failure of the Hollyweird crowd to do SciFi. Both attempts were utterly atrocious!

I agree, I was so disappointed. They really sucked.