Download or read book The Great Science Fiction Pictures written by James Robert Parish and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Science Fiction Pictures written by James Parish and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to The Great Science Fiction Pictures: Volume 1 by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts. This expansive volume covers over 250 science fiction feature films, serials, and TV movies produced over the years in the United States and elsewhere. The movies examined include The Exploits of Elaine (1918), The Last Man on Earth (1924), Chandu, the Magician (1932), Flash Gordon (1936), Buck Rogers (1939), Captain America (1944), Superman (1948), It Came from Outer Space (1953), War of the Worlds (1953), Forbidden Planet (1956), The Blob (1958), On the Beach (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Planet of the Apes (1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Sleeper (1972), and Soylent Green (1973). Each entry contains detailed cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This book also contains an extensive history of science fiction films, a list of genre radio and TV series, and a select bibliography of science fiction bibliographies, indexes, and checklists. This is an informed and handy reference guide for movie enthusiasts, sci-fi fans, and film historians. It also is an excellent sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.

Download or read book A Treasury of Great Science Fiction written by Anthony Boucher and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Science Fiction Pictures Volume 2 written by James Parish and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to The Great Science Fiction Pictures: Volume 2 by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts. This is a follow up to The Great Science Fiction Pictures: Volume 1 and continues the authors' in-depth study of the genre with coverage of well over 300 movies. The entries encompass features films, serials, TV movies, and foreign releases. Among the many titles covered are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Frankenstein (1931), The Devil Doll (1936), Sky Bandits (1940), House of Dracula (1945), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Phantom from Space (1953), The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962), Wizards of Mars (1965), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Blade Runner (1982), E.T., The Extra Terrestrial (1982), The Empire Strikes Back (1984), The Terminator (1984), 2010: The Year We Made Contact (1984), Back to the Future (1985), and Robocop (1987). Each entry contains detailed cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This book also provides a list of sci-fi genre radio and TV series. This is an informed and handy reference guide for movie enthusiasts, sci-fi devotees, and film historians. It also is an excellent sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.

Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas Dreams written by David A. Kyle and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Tales of Science Fiction written by Robert Silverberg and published by BBS Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of science fiction tales features the writing of Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Julian Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, and others.

Download or read book The Great Science Fiction Pictures II written by James Robert Parish and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This belated sequel is even more important than the same author's first volume ( LJ 9/15/77), which predated Star Wars/ET/Close Encounters and the films they inspired. This book also fills in that volume's omissions. Information on some 400 films (and updated TV and radio listings) yields credits, detailed cast lists, synopses, quotes from contemporary reviews and genre encyclopedias, brief critical evaluations, and entertaining film buff-y tidbits. There are a few nitpicky errors, and the quality of the entries unavoidably varies somewhat, but generally the level of scholarship is high, as it usually is for all the products emanating from the veteran Parish/Pitts reference book ``factory,'' in part because they are, and utilize other, crackerjack researchers. Highly recommended.-- Da vid Bartholomew, NYPL -Library Journal.

Download or read book A Day with Wilbur Robinson written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur’s best friend Lewis helps search for Grandfather Robinson’s missing false teeth in this classic picture book from William Joyce that inspired the Disney animated sci-fi comedy, Meet the Robinsons! No need to knock, just step right in. You’re just in time to two-step with Grandfather Robinson and his dancing frog band. Cousin Laszlo is demonstrating his new antigravity device. And Uncle Art’s flying saucer is parked out back. It seems like all the Robinson relatives are here, so be prepared. And keep your head down…Uncle Gaston is testing out the family cannon. Oh, and watch where you sit, Grandpa’s lost his teeth again. Welcome to the Robinson’s.

Download or read book 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories written by Isaac Asimov and published by Pan. This book was released on 1980 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-noveller.

Download or read book James Cameron s Story of Science Fiction written by Randall Frakes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.

Download or read book The Greatest Science Fiction Classics of H G Wells Unabridged written by H. G. Wells and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-06 with total page 2718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Greatest Science Fiction Classics of H. G. Wells" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Table of Contents: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes The Shape of Things to Come The Food of the Gods In the Days of the Comet A Modern Utopia The War in the Air The Chronic Argonauts In the Abyss The Star The Crystal Egg

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."

Download or read book Typeset in the Future written by Dave Addey and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.

Download or read book Big Book of Science Fiction written by Groff Conklin and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Science in Science Fiction written by Peter Nicholls and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1987 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of H G Wells in One Volume written by H. G. Wells and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 2718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This science fiction collection offers the most renowned novels of the visionary writer H. G. Wells – his greatest tales of dystopian worlds, aliens, time travel and far fantastical lands: The War of The Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The Time Machine The Food of the Gods In the Days of the Comet In the Abyss The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes A Modern Utopia The War in the Air The Chronic Argonauts The Star The Crystal Egg

Download or read book The Greatest Science Fiction Novels Stories by H G Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 2720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this thoughtfully assembled collection of the greatest science fiction books written by the incomparable H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes The Shape of Things to Come The Food of the Gods In the Days of the Comet A Modern Utopia The War in the Air The Chronic Argonauts In the Abyss The Star The Crystal Egg