Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don’t enjoy at all. It’s a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it’s changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

  • PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    https://pseudopod.org/ for horror

    or

    https://escapepod.org/ for sci-fi

    There are a few shows from each that cross over a bit. It’s been years since I listened so I can’t attest to the current quality but I enjoyed it when I listened.

    I have a few short story compilations that I like but not many are in the sci-fi horror genre. I did really enjoy Voyage of the Space Beagle which reads kind of like a bunch of short stories. It’s been said that it was one of the inspirations for Alien.