Published May 9, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT This overlooked animated masterpiece still has one of the best worlds in fiction Netflix is about to lose the most inventive sci-fi show of the century Image: Max The science fiction genre is home to many fascinating, terrifying, and breathtaking worlds that stretch the limits of imagination, from the hive of scum and villainy that is Tatooine in Star Wars to the lush, Earth-like exomoon of Pandora in Avatar . But few come close to the ecological horror and mind-numbing brilliance of Scavengers Reign , which leaves Netflix at the end of May. Created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner and produced by Titmouse ( The Venture Bros, The Mighty Nein ), HBO’s trippy 12-episode animated series largely flew under the radar when it debuted in 2023. Three years later, Scavengers Reign and the robust alien ecosystem at the center of its fictional planet, Vesta, still gives me nightmares.…