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thematically connected
Neuromancer
Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre
The Road
McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son
All Quiet on the Western Front
The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud
The Last of Us
The defining post-apocalyptic story in games
Outer Wilds
The most meditative space exploration game — about curiosity and loss
Spec Ops: The Line
A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players
Blade Runner 2049
Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original
Apocalypse Now
Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness
Princess Mononoke
Miyazaki's most complex environmental fable — nature and industry locked in tragic war
True Detective
McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak
Station Eleven
What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable
Black Mirror
Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse
Sorry
Joel Corry
OUT OUT (feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie)
Head & Heart (feat. MNEK)
Bed
Lonely
What Would You Do?
Lionheart (Fearless)
