I had little hope by it’s title, The Ten Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. After all, most articles about the subject are by sci-fi literature fans, and they follow a formula. There’s usually a perfunctory nod to a sci-fi classic like Foundation or The Left Hand Of Darkness. There are often some token “hard sci-fi” entries like something from Niven or Haldeman just to show that he’s street (or the alpha-dork equivalent). Then the rest is filled with self-pleasing dweeb wankery. This tends to take the form of worshipping the latest Terry Pratchett excretion or Piers Anthony dingleberry. Yeah, cuz 400 pages of unfunny nerd puns translated to the screen mean critical or commercial success. The article linked above avoids these pitfalls. Just the right amount of geekery. It reads well and actually considers the challenges involved in making effective films. His entry for Snow Crash skirts the fringe of mainstream, but I feel that Snow Crash was written in a gritty cinematic style, so it could be translated to the screen, but I agree with his argument against it making money.