The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (Series, Needs Splitting)

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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (Series, Needs Splitting) Playlist

by Edward L. Ferman

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 28, 2026

This playlist moves between spacious electronic soundscapes and songs about memory, love, mortality, and life in an uncertain future. Its shifts in scale reflect an anthology of distinct stories, while a quieter emotional thread evokes the lovers in Sturgeon’s tale and Bradbury’s old man holding on to the past.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Oxygène, Pt. 4

Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène

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2

Porcelain

Moby · Play

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3

Children

Robert Miles · 2gether 90 (Années 90)

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4

Elegia - 2015 Remaster

New Order · Low-Life

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5

Pacific Coast Highway

Kavinsky · Nightcall

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6

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: I. Sunrise

Richard Strauss · Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30; Don Juan, Op. 20; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Suite, Op. 60 - Sony Classical Masters

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7

A New Error

Moderat · Moderat

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8

Atlas

Battles · Mirrored

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9

Treefingers

Radiohead · Kid A

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10

Sunset Lover

Petit Biscuit · Sunset Lover

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11

Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster

David Bowie · David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) [2015 Remaster]

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12

The Future

Leonard Cohen · The Future

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13

The Great Beyond

R.E.M. · All The Way To The End

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14

Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

The Korgis · Dumb Waiters (Expanded Edition)

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15

Across The Universe - Remastered 2009

The Beatles · Let It Be (Remastered 2009)

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16

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan · The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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17

Dreams - 2004 Remaster

Fleetwood Mac · Rumours (Super Deluxe)

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18

The World We Live In

The Killers · Day & Age (Bonus Tracks)

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19

I Think We're Alone Now

Tommy James & The Shondells · I Think We're Alone Now

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20

Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2020 Remaster

Joy Division · Love Will Tear Us Apart

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