Here are the best space movies ever made.

Some of it is, well, a bit unexpected – which is to be totally expected, in the grand scheme of things. You only read the first 2 Hyperion books IMO and lookup which. If you like more planetary romance and softer sci-fi, Dune and Hyperion are the series to start. If you want a long series with politics try The Expanse or Legend of the Galactic Heroes. That makes for fertile ground for filmmakers to suspend us in absolute disbelief. A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness in the Sky both by Vernor Vinge. What's more, the place out yonder remains unsolved. These are just a few ideas the best space movies have tackled, and the concept of the multiverse, in all its terrifying eternalness, has seen no end to the limits of creative thinking and onscreen fiction.

We could even volunteer to pilot a satellite solo and then scream into the void when Houston identifies that there is, actually, a huge problem.

Perhaps give a friendly wave at a passing UFO and inadvertently offend them so much they harvest our organs for Sunday lunch. That vast expanse of nothingness up in the sky: it looks quite appealing right now, doesn't it? We could start a little colony on Mercury and sunbathe in gas masks.

Best space opera