Sci-Fi Is Already Making a Good Showing This Awards Season

As the year comes to a close, awards season starts to heat up. We’re still a few weeks away from the biggest nominations like the Golden Globes or Oscars, but other major groups have started to roll out their nominations, and, for us here at io9, they’ve been very exciting. That’s because while most years there are one or two genre movies in the mix, this year there are at least four, possibly even five. And TV looks just as good, if not better.

Take, for example, the American…