This week, Ron Howard confirmed he will direct the pilot of a television adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, with Akiva Goldsman attached as showrunner and Steven Spielberg executive-producing through Amblin Entertainment. The announcement, reported by The Hollywood Reporter, represents a sharp turn for a project that spent fifteen years trapped in development as a feature film

Across five seasons and 50 episodes, Apple TV's For All Mankind has accumulated a 91% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating, spawned a spin-off series, and built a fictional timeline stretching from 1969 to the present day. It has done so without a single phaser, transporter, or warp drive — and in the process, it has quietly become what Star Trek used to be.

Last year, November belonged to video games. This year, it belongs to space sci-fi across every medium simultaneously — and the sheer density of releases arriving over the next thirty days represents something the genre has not seen since the autumn of 2014, when Interstellar, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, and Dragon Age: Inquisition competed for the same cultural oxygen. Here is everything arriving, ranked by significance, with the dates, platforms, and context you need to plan your month.

Beneath a sky of vaporised rock, 280 light-years from Earth, a planet completes its orbit in just ten and a half hours. Surface temperatures breach 1,800°C. Starlight hammers the dayside with enough ferocity to strip any known atmosphere into oblivion.

Three Olivier Awards, a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, and two of the most recognisable characters in the history of space sci-fi — all belonging to a man who almost turned down the role that changed everything because he thought a "bald Brit" had no business commanding a starship.

This week, four actors whose combined screen time aboard Starfleet vessels spans more than three decades announced they have completed an entirely different kind of space sci-fi mission — and not a single phaser was involved.

A giant sandworm erupting through a Fortnite map sounds exactly like the sort of thing that shouldn't work. And yet here we are. Players can now summon Shai-Hulud using a Thumper, wield Dune-inspired weaponry, and unlock themed rewards as Dune: Awakening makes its way into Fortnite through creator-made experiences.

Dave Filoni has never courted the spotlight. The man who created Ahsoka Tano, breathed narrative coherence into The Clone Wars, and quietly became the most trusted creative steward in modern Star Wars mythology preferred, for most of his career, to be the person who makes the presidents look good. Now he is the president.