This Collider feature revisits science fiction novels the author considers genuinely excellent but largely forgotten today, arguing that time and shifting popularity have unfairly buried them despite their literary merit or historical importance. The piece frames this as a corrective to genre memory, noting that even celebrated authors produced standout works overshadowed by their own more famous titles.

Among the picks are Algis Budrys's 1960 Hugo-nominated novel Rogue Moon, about a deadly alien labyrinth on the Moon explored via doppelgängers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 pulp classic A Princess of Mars, the foundational Barsoom novel introducing John Carter. William Golding's 1955 prehistoric speculative work The Inheritors also features, alongside further entries the article promises but does not detail in the excerpt, with the full list running to eight books in total.