Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sci-fi books have long been considered both warnings and predictors of potential dangers of the future, and the books that stay closer to science than fiction are especially poignant.
8 Dark Matter Written by Blake Crouch Close The Dark Matter show makes big changes to Blake Crouch's book, but that hasn't stopped audiences from being heavily invested in the outcome of the series. While many sci-fi books offer glimpses of humans looking out for each other, Dark Matter is as bleak as its name suggests.
The thrust of the book revolves around the colonization of a planet similar to Earth at the hands of invading humans who have stripped their own planet of all its riches. There, the humans encounter the human-like species, Athsheans, native to the planet, and are quick to brutalize them. After facing violence at the hands of humans and witnessing the destruction of their home world, the Athsheans have no choice but to fight back.
Both reading the 2011 novel and watching the 2015 film The Martian is a test of endurance, as the way Mark, the protagonist, manages to survive alone on a desolate planet is shocking. After accidentally being left behind during his mission to the Red Planet, Mark devises method after method to keep himself alive as his supplies run low and the possibility of rescue grows slim. However, at every turn, Mark never fails to give up.
3 Diaspora Written by Greg Egan Humanity has predominantly uploaded itself to advanced computer simulations called polises, where their consciousnesses live.