TIME off is for relaxing with a book, and sci-fi luckily meets our needs with a wonderfully diverse palette of approaches to the grief and trouble surrounding us. Some stories shine a light on our worst truths, others offer escapes to worlds as beautiful as they should be, and then there are those that blow your mind so thoroughly you can’t think any more.
The best canonical sci-fi puts the thinnest veil on reality to show us just …