Believe

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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Outer Wilds

The most meditative space exploration game — about curiosity and loss

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Silent Hill 2

The greatest horror game — a journey into guilt and self-punishment

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Hereditary

Ari Aster's debut — grief as a haunting, family as a trap

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Atlanta

Donald Glover's show navigates the Atlanta rap scene with surreal precision

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse