I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.