Shipwreck is by turns an absorbing, gripping, sad, and insightful novel. The author crafts a strange, cleverly imagined planet and, later, balances the survival narrative on the fine edge between success and failure.

The final confrontation in John Wyndham’s The Chrystalids has been criticized as something of a deus ex machina contrivance. Is that fair?

The absurdity of Stanislaw Lem’s imagined future in “The Futurological Congress” (1971) is a revelation. Just when you think you might have reached the limit of his world’s convoluted logic, there is another twist to drag you deeper in.

“…to cap everything off, the arrival of a second colony ship from Earth, dispatched many dozens of years after the dissident ship left, brings an even greater moment of forehead slapping and disillusioned head shaking.”

Gradual societal collapse is what John Christopher tackles in his 1968 novel, Pendulum

The graphic novel weaves real events together with a fictionalized retelling of Laika’s short life.

It is not the author who chooses the cover, but the publishing company.

What marks the book out are Clarke's sweeping vistas, grand ideas, and ultimately optimistic view of humankind's future in the cosmos.

The Peripheral succeeds in creating a menagerie of compelling characters.

For all its many failings, the film is not a failure.