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.

The chairs are out. The drinks are ready. Somewhere beyond the garden fence, a starship is about to make a very bad landing. An outdoor sci-fi night sounds wonderfully straightforward: carry out a projector, hang a screen and press play. The disappointing version begins when the sky is still bright, the picture is enormous but barely visible, and the battery warning arrives before the final act.

On 5 November 2026, Audible will release a scripted audio drama with the credentials of a major screen production. Exoplanet, executive produced by Andy Weir, written by Benjamin Percy and starring Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose and John Leguizamo, represents an ambitious bet on space sci-fi without a screen.