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I’ve always been rather particular about what science fiction books and films I like, so the domination of this genre by the likes of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dr Who (in the UK at least) has been disappointing to me. Especially so since there are so many other science fiction books and films that I think deserve to be ranked well ahead of them.

One recent film that has bucked this trend is I, Robot, the Isaac Asimov classic, and that is a title easily worthy of mention here, even though it’s almost certainly borrowed from the classic title of I, Claudius.

Another great title from Isaac Asimov is Nightfall, a single word which opens up a whole world of possibilities and touches a nerve with its primeaval connotations of danger and the need to find shelter and safety from the creatures of the night. The Stars, Like Dust is another great title from Asimov, though I wasn’t particularly impressed with the actual story. That title’s similar to A Fall Of Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.

Journey Into Space is a fabulous title from the 1950s, and one of my boyhood memories is listening to the radio series of that name on winter nights with my parents and being scared stiff by it. Later I had the thrill of seeing the paperback book on sale, with its cover showing a mighty spaceship on its launchpad at night, aimed at the stars above.

The 1960s produced the inimitable film, 2001 – A Space Oddessy, based on the book by Arthur C Clarke, who wrote many other books with great titles, such as Rendevous With Rama, The Other Side Of The Sky, Earthlight, A Fall Of Moondust and The Songs Of Distant Earth.

Other great SF titles that I must include are Blade Runner, The Matrix, and Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger In A Strange Land.

Philip Gegan