What if the greatest space sci-fi film of 2026 was actually conceived in 1996? That is the beautifully paradoxical hook of Ray Gunn — a retro-futurist animated noir that director Brad Bird has been nursing for three decades, and which finally drops its first trailer today ahead of a December Netflix premiere.

The best sci-fi home cinema gear should make a fictional universe easier to inhabit—not give you another system to troubleshoot. Our approach is therefore simple: choose equipment for the room, the films and the way you actually watch.

There’s a moment in every era of design when reality quietly overtakes imagination. In the 1970s, NASA prototypes looked stranger than the sci‑fi films that tried to imitate them. In the 1990s, concept cars flirted with cyberpunk long before Hollywood caught on. And now, in 2026, something uncanny is happening again.

The Ark season 3 has not disappointed. From the terrors on Ross to the mysteries surrounding Homebase, the series has embraced its search-and-rescue direction with welcome ambition.

Welcome to Part 2 of our Space Sci-Fi Arena feature. In part 1 five of the galaxy’s most legendary space sci-fi warriors—Master Chief, Iron Man, Space Marine, Predator, and Din Djarin—were enrolled into our ultimate arena. Together, these space sci-fi icons set the gold standard for intergalactic combat, each a testament to the boundless imagination and tactica of the genre.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 is a frustratingly uneven voyage: half of it feels routine and overextended, yet its determination to try strange, playful and genuinely original ideas remains worth celebrating.

Sometimes it arrives as mythic space opera, full of empires, rebels and destiny. Sometimes it is hard science fiction, where orbital mechanics, biology and physics are as important as character drama. Sometimes it is neon-lit cyberpunk, frontier western, military epic, first-contact mystery, survival thriller or outright cosmic horror.

Picture a world where every sunrise is a rumour, every memory a liability, and the only certainty is the cold, unyielding concrete of a subterranean home. Silo, Apple TV+’s flagship dystopian series, plunges viewers into the depths—both literal and metaphorical—of a society sealed away from a poisoned Earth, its inhabitants haunted by secrets as dense as the walls encasing them.