3 Sci-Fi Genres for Thinking

For the final three months of the year in my house, we celebrate Decemberween—October through December. We watch nothing but horror, sci-fi, and fantasy for the entire period each year, saving the “normie” stuff for the other nine months.

I’ve been thinking a lot about why we do this. Last week,

Alejandro Piad Morffis

did a great little essay on why sci-fi is important. You can bookmark that for reading here. I endorse what Ale says in his piece, particularly that you can ask big questions that you might not otherwise be able to pose.

I’m also thinking about the subgenres within sci-fi that I’m personally drawn to. While sci-fi has a lot of these classifications, from space opera to alien invasion, the ones that have always appealed to me have made it easy to ask those big questions.

Let’s talk about five genres of sci-fi today that encourage this sort of thinking, and I’ll be sure to make a few recommendations you can watch or read this week.

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