Sci-fi

For all the latest news on science fiction movies, TV shows, games, and more. Plus the future!!

Kalki 2898 AD has the ultimate recipe for a sci-fi epic: Star Wars + Hindu myth + RRR

By Katie Rife June 28

A Quiet Place: Day One lives up to the first movie by doing something radically different

By Siddhant Adlakha June 27

Damon Lindelof and HBO’s Green Lantern show gets a GREENlight (get it?)

By Matt Patches June 25

The best sci-fi movies you can watch at home

By Toussaint Egan, Pete Volk, and 1 more June 21

Dear TV writers: Please stop being weird about pronouns

By Pete Volk June 18

TV

Scavengers Reign still has so much more to say

Co-creator Joe Bennett talks through the origins of one of 2023’s best sci-fi series and what could lie on the horizon

By Toussaint Egan June 17

The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this June

By Toussaint Egan and Polygon Staff June 15

Dune: War for Arrakis board game owes its success in part due to The Lord of the Rings

By Charlie Theel June 11

Haymitch’s story will finally be told in new Hunger Games book and movie

By Petrana Radulovic June 6

The Acolyte’s High Republic gives Star Wars a totally new timeline to play with

By Austin Gorton June 4

An Armored Core wielding an assault rifle faces a giant mecha in a screenshot from Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

An Armored Core wielding an assault rifle faces a giant mecha in a screenshot from Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

This Armored Core 6 lore video is the best mecha movie of 2024

By Clayton Ashley June 3

Star Trek

Star Trek: Discovery tore itself apart for the good of Star Trek’s future

And it helped set the tone for where Star Trek is now

By Dylan Roth June 3

George Miller’s smartest move in Furiosa is totally dissing Immortan Joe

By Susana Polo June 2

Who is Furiosa’s equivalent of the Doof Warrior?

By Tasha Robinson and Polygon Staff June 2

Doctor Who goes full Black Mirror only to set up its most shocking twist

By Joshua Rivera May 31

Scavengers Reign, a sci-fi show like no other, now gets a second shot at life on Netflix

By Joshua Rivera May 31

Anya Taylor-Joy walked off the Furiosa set with her favorite prop

By Tasha Robinson May 30

Why Lucasfilm decided the High Republic is the future of Star Wars

By Austen Goslin May 30

The 2024 summer entertainment preview

Let Keanu Reeves punch and shoot his way onto your summer reading list

By Joshua Rivera May 30

The 2024 summer entertainment preview

The Expanse’s James S.A. Corey returns with a new space opera — read the first chapter now

By Matt Patches May 28

George Miller did 5 things to make Furiosa an essential prequel instead of a cash grab

By Rosie Knight May 28

Movies

Respect to the director of Netflix’s Atlas for thinking deeply about mechs

‘I knew I had to separate from everything — I had no interest in repeating.’

By Matt Patches May 25

Where does Furiosa fit into the Mad Max timeline? George Miller says it doesn’t matter

By Austen Goslin May 22

Doctor Who put Steven Moffat back where he belongs

By Joshua Rivera May 22

The top 5 times a remastered Phantom Menace trailer made me incorrectly go ‘Star Wars is so back’

By Matt Patches May 20

The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this May

By Toussaint Egan and Polygon Staff May 18

Upgrade is a terrific cyberpunk thriller disguised as an action movie, and it’s now on Netflix

By Austen Goslin May 17

3 Body Problem renewed for season 2 — and however many more seasons it needs to wrap

By Austen Goslin May 15

Furiosa kicks sand in the face of boring franchise-filler movies

By Rosie Knight May 15

What’s it like to crush on a Victorian man transported to modern London? Kaliane Bradley had to find out

By Joshua Rivera May 15

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ posters and trailers all contain a huge spoiler

By Tasha Robinson May 11

Doctor Who’s new season breaks one big tradition

By Joshua Rivera May 10