Dave Thompson

The satire can be blunt, but the city design and mission variety are elite. Few games make just driving around this entertaining.

Cruel, hilarious, and brutally precise about power. The family dynamics are ugly but impossible to look away from.

Quieter than Remains of the Day but still affecting. Ishiguro knows how to write loneliness.

Wild and inventive. The multiverse concept could have been a mess but they nailed the emotional core.

Quietly devastating. Stevens is one of the most heartbreaking narrators in literature.

Strange and beautiful. Clarke builds mystery through restraint. Not for everyone but I loved it.

Weir somehow made astrobiology page-turning fun. Couldn't put it down.

Dense, political, and prophetic. Herbert built an entire universe that still feels fresh 60 years later.