Cross-media picks for Isaac Asimov fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a sensibility Asimov readers will recognise at once: ideas that take over the story, science that generates genuine moral and practical stakes, and a faith that rigorous thinking — however imperfect its practitioners — is the best tool we have. From a lone robot carrying out a duty it barely understands (Finch, OPUS: The Day We Found Earth) to a colony ship gone wrong (The Ark, Mr. Robot), the thread is always curiosity colliding with consequence.
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Primer
Inventors who discover reality-bending science and must reckon with consequences that spiral beyond their control.
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Finch
A robot learning what it means to be human, told with warmth at the end of the world.
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Short Circuit
A newly sentient machine insists on personhood while humans argue over who gets to define it.
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Retro-pulp adventure where vanishing scientists and giant robots point toward a vast, systematic threat.
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Saturn 3
A remote space station, a flawed AI, and the human cost of trying to feed an overcrowded civilization.
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Renner
A programmer discovers his AI creation is less tool than mirror — and the reflection is dangerous.
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Free Fall
A lone technician stranded on a damaged orbital station must problem-solve to survive in total isolation.
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The Andromeda Strain
Scientists race to quarantine an extraterrestrial pathogen using method, data and desperate procedure.
Series
Early Edition
A man gifted with tomorrow's news must decide how — and whether — to act on foreknowledge.
Series
Earth 2
A polluted, exhausted Earth drives a small band toward an unknown planet — survival through ingenuity.
Series
Spirit of Wonder: Scientific Boys Club
Boyhood wonder about Mars and science clubs gives this animated series its warm, idea-driven charm.
Series
Z.O.E Dolores, i
A widowed pilot and a self-aware android navigate grief, duty and what it means to have a family.
Series
Sliders
A boy genius opens a door to infinite alternate Earths and can't get back — classic what-if premise.
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The Ark
Colonists on a crippled deep-space ark must improvise civilisation from first principles under pressure.
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Utopia
A mysterious manuscript falls into strangers' hands and their lives suddenly, brutally implode.
Series
The Three-Body Problem
Hard science fiction that ties nanomaterials research to a cosmic first-contact conspiracy across civilizations.
Game
South Scrimshaw, Part One
A newly conscious whale calf narrates science-fictional ecology — meditative, idea-first, unlike anything else.
Game
Mr. Robot
A service robot must save a colony ship when the central computer fails — practically Asimov in premise.
Game
Analogue: A Hate Story
Recovered ship logs from an AI unfold a story about history, tradition and whose account survives.
Game
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
A little robot keeps a century-old promise to find Earth — earnest, emotional, built around a single big idea.
Game
Choice of Robots
Your choices shape what robots become — a branching novel that takes the ethics of creation seriously.
Game
Iron Meat
Emergency protocols enacted: a ship's controls are seized remotely, crew incapacitated — machinery runs wild.
Game
A.D. 2044
A near-future world where male extinction looms tests how civilisation adapts to an existential shock.
Game
Close To The Sun
An isolated megaship in 1897 international waters becomes a trap for those inside — and those who want in.
Book
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
Foundational SF firsts curated by Asimov himself — antimatter, cloning, collapsed stars, each told with rigor.
Book
Intergalactic empires
Galactic-empire stories from Silverberg, Panshin and others — the grand scale Asimov fans will recognise.
Book
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
Golden-age classics — Brackett, Brown, Padgett — where the ideas are the plot and the prose is clean.
Book
The Early Asimov, Book Two [14 stories]
Asimov's own early stories show the playful problem-solving that defined a career and a genre.
Book
Science Fiction Stories
Wells, Verne and Asimov side by side — a window into the tradition that shaped modern science fiction.
Book
Out of this world
Bradbury, Knight, Asimov and friends — compact stories that treat a single speculation with full seriousness.
Book
Speculations
Asimov introduces an anthology that ranges from Foster's Humanx to quiet ethical puzzles — wide and smart.
Book
Science, Numbers, and I
Seventeen essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction — hard science and genuine wonder on every page.
Start with The Andromeda Strain — scientists racing to contain an alien pathogen with method and urgency — or Finch, a quieter film about a robot grappling with what humanity actually means.
Yes: Mr. Robot (2008) is almost a direct homage, casting you as a service mechanoid saving a colony ship when the central computer fails; Choice of Robots is an interactive novel where your choices shape your robots' ethics across 300,000 words.
The Early Asimov, Book Two collects his own stories; Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts is his personal selection of landmark SF concepts — both put readers directly in contact with the puzzle-first storytelling his fans love.