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Interstellar (film)
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.
WALL-E
Passengers
2016 film by Morten Tyldum
Pandorum
Pandorum is a 2009 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Alvart, produced by Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt and Paul W. S. Anderson (the latter two through their Impact Pictures banner), and starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Travis Milloy wrote the screenplay from a story by Milloy and Alvart. The film's title is a fictional slang term for a form of psychosis caused by deep space and triggered by emotional stress, leading to severe paranoia, delirium, and nosebleeds. Pandorum was released on 25 September 2009 in the United States, and on 2 October 2009 in the UK. The film was poorl
Battle for Terra
2007 film directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas
generation ship
interstellar spacecraft able to accommodate multiple generations of passengers
Aniara
Aniara () is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956.
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
2017 film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita
Orphans of the Sky
1963 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Phantasy Star III
1990 video game
Cosmoball
Cosmoball, also known as Goalkeeper of the Galaxy () is a 2020 Russian 3D superhero space opera film written and directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, based on the animated series Galactik Football, with the participation of the television channel Russia-1. The film is set in the future, a post-apocalyptic city in a world inhabited by survivors of an intergalactic war that has shifted the planet's poles. Above the city towers a huge alien ship - it is a stadium, the planet's fate rests in the hands of the willing and capable Cosmoball players who are defending the Earth. The fate of the planet depends
Space Mutiny
1988 film directed by David Winters and Neal Sundstrom
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
episode of Star Trek: The Original Series (S3 E8)
Non-Stop
1958 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss
Rescue Party
short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Footfall
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Analogue: A Hate Story
2012 video game
Ascension
2014 TV miniseries
Captive Universe
1969 novel by Harry Harrison