It’s also a sports movie as much as a sci-fi one. The film, based on a 1973 short story published in Esquire, follows Jonathan E. (James Caan), the star of Houston’s Rollerball team.

As one of the hardest hard sci-fi novels ever written, Permutation City isn’t easy to grasp on the first read through. Intellectually fascinating. Existentially disturbing.

The show originally premiered in 2021, and is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s classic series of sci-fi novels, which span multiple centuries and follow the rise and fall of an empire, and a ...