The Nerd-Iverse

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• Movie

• TV show

• Book

• Video game

ON EARTH

• JURASSIC WORLD

Owen (Chris Pratt) must stop a genetically engineered dinosaur–created to attract visitors to failing theme park Jurassic World–from killing everybody

• TRIGGER WARNING

Neil Gaiman’s anthology of short fiction includes fairy tales and ghost stories

• TOMORROWLAND

Frank (George Clooney) and Casey (Britt Robertson) travel to a parallel universe known as Tomorrowland, where whatever they do affects their lives on Earth

• ANT-MAN

Con man Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) dons a supersuit that allows him to shrink in scale but increase in strength

• TERMINATOR GENISYS

Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) travels back in time from 2029 Los Angeles to help the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from a newer model that’s trying to crush her

• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Max (Tom Hardy) and Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) fight to survive in post-apocalyptic Australia

• HEROES REBORN

Ordinary people become aware they have special abilities–much as they did in NBC’s 2006 version

• AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

After a peacekeeping superrobot goes berserk, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans) and company must smack it into submission

• THE FANTASTIC FOUR

A group of scientists (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell) are accidentally mutated into superhumans

• SEVENEVES

Neal Stephenson’s newest novel explores what happens when the moon blows up, forcing Earth’s survivors to endure a meteoric storm

• SUPERGIRL

Kara Zor-El arrives on Earth–from Krypton–where she must hide the powers she shares with her famous cousin Superman

SOMEWHERE TOTALLY MADE UP

• PAN

After the orphan Peter is spirited away to Neverland, he must rely on friends like Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara) and battle Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman)

• THE DOORS OF STONE

The latest addition to Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicle series follows a magician who hunts down the mysterious group that murdered his family

• THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2

Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and the rest of the District 13 rebel army wage war on Panem’s nefarious Capitol city

• A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: THE WINDS OF WINTER

George R.R. Martin is almost done with the long-awaited sixth novel in the series that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones

IN SPACE

• HALO 5: GUARDIANS

Players assume the role of Master Chief, who returns to fight aliens across different fictional planets

• THE MARTIAN

In Ridley Scott’s epic, an astronaut (Matt Damon) struggles to survive after being stranded on Mars

• 400 DAYS

A group of astronauts (Ben Feldman, Dane Cook and others) who think they’re on a simulated mission to test the psychological effects of deep-space travel exit the ship to find themselves on a distant planet

• DARK MATTER

Syfy’s latest follows a crew that wakes up in deep space with no memory of their mission–or their identities

• NO MAN’S SKY

Players explore an infinite galaxy, navigating ancient ruins and fighting off potential predators

• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

Thirty years after the death of Darth Vader, we return to a galaxy far, far away