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?

  • Prethoryn OvermindEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    Can anyone recommend where I could get short sci-fi horror stories? Even for audio listening like a podcast.

    My love for aliens, space, etc was born from Alien, Star Wars, and even wierd movies like Splic despite it being kind of meh.

    I absolutely love Arrival, The Martian, Interestellar, and even Ad Astra.

    Even more so I love horror being thrown into the mix and I want more of it. My love for sci-fi grew even larger with video games like Halo and more recently Stellaris.

    I loved Annihilation and Dune as books. I am almost finished with the last book of The Three Body Problem series and the last book is a tough read. The Dark Forest is easily the best of the three so far.

    I saw a massive list on this thread and have book marked it for later but I love listening to sci-fi horror. Every now and again, The No Sleep Podcast will tell a Science Fiction Horror story and I just want more.

    • @PhantomPhanaticEnglish
      2•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.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Have you listened to Alice isn’t Dead? It’s in a sort of grey area where it could be interpreted as sci fi or supernatural horror. It’s by the creators of welcome to nightmare but way more suspenseful and creepy with less of the light hearted comedy elements.