Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don’t think we’ve had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.
My daughter just started school. She’s pretty stoked about it, and so are we.
I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.
By any chance is this from Andrew Tanenbaum?
Hello, fellow ex-IBMer.
Oh absolutely! Riddick 2 was a “bad” movie that I could get behind. It captured so much of WH40K worldbuilding without actually being one.
Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.
I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.
In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.
Hashtags are your friend. It also helps if you have some active posters for the tag. I get good content from following #sciencefiction #coffee and #python.
Project Gutenberg has a pretty good science fiction selection, quite extensive in fact that I think it’s better to go by author than by individual works.
For the “classics” there’s H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, aside from Verne and Shelley whom you’ve already mentioned.
There are some surprising names, too, like Jack London, E.M. Forster, and Rudyard Kipling.
For golden age scifi: Frederic Brown, E.E. “Doc” Smith, CM Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Frederic Pohl, Olaf Stapledon, and Andre Norton. Also, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.
For your criteria, though, I would recommend looking for the works of Philip K. Dick and H. Beam Piper.
The first Don Quixote book was so popular it spawned a lot of fake sequels. Cervantes killed off Don Quixote in the second book to preclude any more copycats. That’s what I remember anyhow from the preface of a paperback edition from way back.