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So, you have a space fandom. However, other people might not have heard of it! Thankfully, there is a solution: Tell us why your canon is the best! Here's a nice format you can use to make it easier for people to find stuff: (copypasteable below)
The canon: The canon's name
What: The medium – TV, book, anime, RPF, 5-minute (posters/music video/etc), ... – some idea of the length would also be good, is it one book/season/movie, or is it longer?
Where: where it can be found – is there a legal free download, is it on Netflix, an Amazon link, etc
Quick pitch: Give us a brief tagline! "Sentient ants get a space program", "Space Opera detectives chasing a priceless alien artwork", "Gritty asteroid mining RPG", ...
More: Tell us all the reasons why it's awesome! What do you like about the canon? The characters, the tone/outlook, the central concept, the relationship between hero and antagonist, the prose style, anything!
Now, go forth and advertise and read the most space-y recs list this side of the Crab Nebula!
The canon: The canon's name
What: The medium – TV, book, anime, RPF, 5-minute (posters/music video/etc), ... – some idea of the length would also be good, is it one book/season/movie, or is it longer?
Where: where it can be found – is there a legal free download, is it on Netflix, an Amazon link, etc
Quick pitch: Give us a brief tagline! "Sentient ants get a space program", "Space Opera detectives chasing a priceless alien artwork", "Gritty asteroid mining RPG", ...
More: Tell us all the reasons why it's awesome! What do you like about the canon? The characters, the tone/outlook, the central concept, the relationship between hero and antagonist, the prose style, anything!
Now, go forth and advertise and read the most space-y recs list this side of the Crab Nebula!
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What: 6-book series + a novella
Where: Where books are sold, perhaps in your local library
Quick pitch: Space Opera galore with 5 different FTL technologies and a bucketload of aliens plus a cool central concept
In-depth: In a universe where other races have all been uplifted into sentiece by prior races, humans achieved sentience themselves. This means they aren't terribly popular with the elder races. They and their own uplifts – chimps and dolphins – discover a thing that is apparently Very Significant to the elder races. The significance is figured out from the fact that discovering it made a galactic civil war break out, with everyone against Earthclan. Oops.
The first book is a slow start to the series, but the second, Startide Rising, more than makes up, with the exciting hijinks and daring escapes of a crew full of dolphins.
What: 2019 film
Where: Free to stream on Amazon Prime in the US
Quick pitch: Low-budget but insanely good Twilight Zone-esque late-50s-set UFO drama set in a small town in New Mexico. This one's for the film nerds.
More: If you like any of the below, you'll like this:
+ mid-century aesthetics
+ stories told in (more or less) real time
+ stories about weird small towns in the desert
+ vivid characters
+ small casts
+ screenplays that throw you into the deep end and expect you to just go with it
+ UFO stuff
+ teenagers who think they're all grown up discovering how big the
worlduniverse really is+ distinctive film scores
+ weirdness
+ excellent endings
+ allusions to The Twilight Zone
What: 20 episode tv drama, final season later in the year.
Where: available on Netflix.
Quick pitch: a family is stranded in outer space, where they must confront the dangers of nature and space, and extraterrestrial robots. A reboot of Lost in Space from 1965, which itself is a take on classic novel Swiss Family Robinson by Johan David Wyss.
More: Competence and family togetherness in space! There's lots of action-adventure but the underlying mood is optimistic and a bit of a love letter to space travel. (It reminds me of original MacGyver in that it has lots of very earnest science-y problem-solving.) All the female characters are strong and awesome, especially Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson. If you like ladies in charge, she definitely is one.
It's a great canvas for gen space adventures and fam. Has a charming ship of reconciled married people, and a fun jaded rogue/prim princess ship. Has Toby Stephens as a grumpy papa bear.
contains: a few episodes have flickering lights, I didn't find it too strong but ymmv.
What: 2020 film
Where: Not currently available for free streaming, but $5 rental on YouTube, Google Play, VUDU, and Amazon Prime in the US
Quick pitch: The crew of an interstellar ark ship on the way to New Earth find themselves dealing with an unexpected and rapidly multiplying alien parasite bent on destruction.
More: Look, I'm not going to lie and say that this is a spectacular movie. It's a plot that we've seen variations on a thousand times before and it's definitely low budget, but the bones of this movie are kind of incredible. We get just enough hints toward character depth to make me believe that this story was someone's beloved baby and the budget just couldn't realize it properly. The cast, too, is stellar. Quite a few unknowns for me, but they're working alongside Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane, and Callan Mulvey--all of whom put way more heart into their performances than you'd expect.