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Music:

Jeff Wayne's "The War of the Worlds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6lY3VaaI0

Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" isn't bad either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9W2pZwvlY

Movies: The Star Wars and Star Trek movies, obviously. The Alien movies are a mix of SF and Horror, but my favorite is the second one, "Aliens". Lots of classic lines in that one.

A couple of older favorites are "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Incredible Shrinking Man" and "A Boy and his Dog".

You should try the riverworld series by philip jose farmer

Are you shooting for "deep and heavy" sci-fi? Or "light and entertaining"? Also, strictly "sci-fi" or also "fantasy"?

I've heard of most of the books here, and heartily concur. Also, added the others to my Kindle list.

One author that I find odd that no one mentioned is Michael Crichton. Google his works, and start from the beginning (never read his alias "John Lange", so you might want to skip those):

Andromeda Strain, Terminal Man, Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, etc. Airframe got weird, but I can't remember why I didn't like it.

If you want some easy reading that is great, but doesn't tax any brain cells, and want to give fantasy a shot, grab Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Then, follow it up with the rest of the Chronicles trilogy, and then the Legends trilogy. Easily my favorite 6 books, ever. I've read them over a dozen times. Not gonna win you any points in conversation at a literary conference or in a bar - but damn, they're just good.

The population of earth is getting so heavy/large, the world is in danger of crashing into the sun.