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Lists and guides built from our reviews and our prediction ledgers. Every pick links to a full review.
Black Mirror Episodes That Came True: 4 Episodes, Ranked by Our Ledgers
The four Black Mirror episodes we've reviewed, ranked by how much of their future has actually arrived, with the evidence for each.
The Best Near-Future Sci-Fi Books: 10 Novels, Ranked
Every near-future novel we've reviewed, ranked by how good it is as a book, with a note on how much of its future has turned up.
The Best Near-Future Sci-Fi Movies: 13 Films, Ranked
Every near-future film we've reviewed, from Children of Men down to Upgrade, ranked by how good it is as a film, with a reading on how much of its future came true.
Hopeful Sci-Fi: 7 Near-Future Stories That Earn Their Optimism
The films, books and series in our archive that leave you more hopeful about the future than when you started, and the honest reasons why, catches included.
Movies Like Her: 8 Films and Series About Loving a Machine
If Her got under your skin, these are the films and shows in our archive about loving, grieving or simply living with a machine, ranked by how well they scratch the same itch.
The Best Sci-Fi About AI: 11 Films, Books and Series
The best stories about artificial intelligence in our archive, across film, TV and the novel, ranked, with what each one got right about the machines we actually built.
Sci-Fi About Grief and Technology: 4 Stories About Keeping the Dead
Four reviewed stories about chatbots of the dead, a broken android son, an uploaded father and a heaven with a data cap, ranked by how true they ring.
Sci-Fi About Memory: 4 Stories About Recording, Replaying and Splitting What We Remember
Four reviewed stories about recording everything, replaying other people's lives and cutting work memories off from home ones, and what each got right.
Sci-Fi About Surveillance: 10 Stories About Being Watched, Scored and Recorded
The best films, novels and series in our archive about surveillance, social scoring and the end of privacy, ranked, with what each one got right about who ended up watching.
Sci-Fi Set in the 2020s and 2030s: 6 Futures That Are Now (Nearly) Here
The films, novels and series in our archive set in years that have arrived or soon will, in order of when they're set, with a check on how each date is holding up.
Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True
Every prediction on the P(n) Board that has already arrived, with the evidence.
When Will It Happen? A Timeline of Sci-Fi Predictions
Everything still to come, ordered by our estimated arrival year.