Science Fiction Titles A to Z

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(A) This film by James Cameron still ranks as the highest grossing film of all time.

(B) This is the film adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

(C) Steven Spielberg's 1977 science fiction film about our contact with an alien race.

(D) This novel by Frank Herbert is the highest grossing science fiction novel of all time.

(E) This 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card tells the story of children trained through games to fight alien races.

(F) Asimov's series chronicling the rise and fall of a galactic empire.

(G) This 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman imagines a future of genetically modified humankind.

(H) This Margaret Atwood novel (and now a television series) describes a patriarchal dystopia, and is often included on feminist reading lists.

(I) This Asimov novel describes the three laws of robotics.

(J) This 1990 novel by Michael Crichton imagined cloning extinct animals and putting them into a wildlife preserve.

(K) This novel by Octavia Butler portrays a black writer who is transported back to the Antebellum American south. Often included in high school and college reading lists.

(L) This 2012 science fiction thriller deals with time paradox.

(M) This Philip Dick novel imagines a world where the nazis won WW II, and has been turned into a television series.

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(N) This George Orwell novel imagines a future where people have given up their freedom in exchange for security.

(O) This television series from 1963 (and reboot from 1995) was more serious science fiction than The Twilight Zone, with which it was often compared.

(P) This film series has been re-imagined as an origin story of the primate protagonists, but the original 1968 film ended with Charlton Heston crying in the sand in front of a buried Statue of Liberty.

(Q) This television series starred Scott Bakula as a man zapped through time to steer history through key moments in time.

(R) This 1970 novel by Larry Niven spawned the Fleet of Worlds series.

(S) This Robert Heinlein novel tells the story of a human raised by Martians who was found and brought home to earth.

(T) This 1874 Jules Verne novel was prescient of many future creations, including submarines.

(U) This Stephen King novel and television series by the same name explores aliens taking over a small American town.

(V) This television series shows an arrival by aliens who at first seem intent on helping mankind, but then are revealed to have sinister motives.

(W) This 1973 film about a robot theme park written by Michael Crichton has been turned into a popular television series.

(X) Books in this fantasy series by Piers Anthony include the titles Ogre, Ogre and Night Mare.

(Y) This 1974 comedy gothic science fiction film chronicles the experiments of the grandson of the infamous scientist from Mary shelley's novel.

(Z) This2005 Jon Favreau film is based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg (who also wrote Jumanji).