Top 100 Sci Fi Movies

Author : Gary Gerani
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Science fiction films
ISBN : 1600108792

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Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies by Gary Gerani Pdf

Fantastic Press strikes again with its second trade paperback offering, this time exploring the ultra-fanciful universe of spaceships, exotic planets, time travel, and extraterrestrials. The "Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies" are reviewed and ranked by fantasy screenwriter/film historian Gary Gerani, who covers everything from early silent groundbreakers like A Trip to the Moon to today's widescreen, computer-generated blockbusters. With over 600 rare visuals, full-color layouts. and an introduction by one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, this exciting new pictorial overview is the ideal companion book to 2010's Top 100 Horror Movies.

Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science fiction films
ISBN : 0733324959

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101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider Pdf

Can you tell your Dagobah from your Delos and your Ming from your Morlock? Do you need help understanding 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY? From the classic low-budget Flash Gordon tales to the slick CGI-realised world of THE MATRIX, science-fiction films have long pushed the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic. 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is your perfect one-stop guide to them all. Science fiction allows every other movie genre to leap - quite literally - into another dimension. Take a classic police chase and set it on Mars. Create a haunted house story, then add the robots. Take the classic boy-meets-girl story, then make them mutants. Great sci-fi movies turn the known world onto its head, play with the laws of physics and all the while hold the viewer spellbound with a gripping vision of future worlds. With insight from critics, film historians, and academics, 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE, applies knowledge and passion to a century of close encounters, distant planets, time travel, black holes, strange outfits, futuristic technology, inexplicable forces, fantastic spaceships, fluorescent drinks and subterranean societies. Strap yourself in: you′re set for a rocket ride to sci-fi heaven.

Author : Gary Gerani
Publisher : Top 100
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fantasy films
ISBN : 1613775245

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Top 100 Fantasy Movies by Gary Gerani Pdf

The film critiques within represent the author's choices for the cinema's most significant fantasy endeavors.

Author : John W. Campbell Jr.
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479426133

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Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) by John W. Campbell Jr. Pdf

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film "The Thing." John W. Campbell's classic tells of an antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien -- with terrifying results!

Author : Chris Barsanti
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781578595334

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The Sci-Fi Movie Guide by Chris Barsanti Pdf

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday reality. Whether nostalgic for the future or fast-forwarding to the present, The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz covers the broad and widening range of science-fiction movies. From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefile’s guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic and TV science fiction. You’ll find more than just Star Wars, Star Trek, and Transformers, with reviews on many overlooked and under-appreciated gems and genres, such as ... • Monsters! Pacific Rim, Godzilla, The Thing, Creature from the Black Lagoon • Superheroes: Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-man, Superman • Avant-garde masterpieces: Solaris, 2001, Brazil • and many, many more categories and movies!!

Author : The Editors of LIFE
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683302452

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LIFE Science Fiction by The Editors of LIFE Pdf

Explore the rise of science fiction - the land of time machines, space travel, and lost worlds - and how we became so enraptured by the mystery, wonder, and thrill of a genre. Discover the historical inspiration, creative strategy, and the behind-the-scenes scoop of classics including Star Wars, ET, Jurassic Park and Avatar in an all-new special edition from LIFE, Science Fiction: 100 Years of Great Movies. Included in this special edition is a detailed chronicle of the 20 most iconic movies that helped forge a new identity for a new genre. Through its evolution over the years - beginning in 1902 with George Méliès's Le Voyage dans la Lune to most recent years in films such as Avatar (2009) and The Martian (2015) - Science Fiction has not only endured a changing landscape thanks to the invention of new technology, but has grown a passionate and devoted following. In this celebration of the most iconic Science Fiction films, adventure through the geniuses of Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, and George Lucas and delve into worlds of possibility and the future.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1838710477

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100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

"A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009)."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Sloan De Forest
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780762491537

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Must-See Sci-fi by Sloan De Forest Pdf

Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made. From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre. They are movies that embed themselves in the depths of the mind, coloring our view of day-to-day reality and probably fueling a few dreams (and nightmares) along the way. In Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi, fifty unforgettable films are profiled, including beloved favorites like The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Fantastic Voyage (1966), groundbreaking shockers like Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), and lesser-known landmarks like Things to Come (1936) and Solaris (1972). Illustrated by astounding color and black-and-white images, the book presents the best of this mind-bending genre, detailing through insightful commentary and behind-the-scenes stories why each film remains essential viewing. A perfect gift for any film buff or sci-fi fanatic!

Author : Arkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,Olena Bormashenko
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613743447

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Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,Olena Bormashenko Pdf

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a &“full empty,&” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems. First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Science Fiction Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Nick Rennison,Stephen E. Andrews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408103715

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100 Must-read Science Fiction Novels by Nick Rennison,Stephen E. Andrews Pdf

"A reliable guide to what science fiction is" Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author "A really good introduction to the genre" SFX Magazine "Perceptive and glorious" Ian Watson, author of the screenplay for Steve Spielberg's A.I. Want to become a science fiction buff? Want to expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of some of the finest SF novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert in the world of science fiction. The book is arranged by author and includes some thematic entries and special categories such as SF film adaptations, SF in rock music and Philip K. Dick in the mass media . It also includes a history of SF and a new definition of the genre, plus lists of award winners and book club recommendations. Foreword by Christopher Priest, the multiple award-winning SF author.

Author : Danny Peary
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761184270

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Cult Sci-Fi Movies by Danny Peary Pdf

Cult Sci-Fi Movies is a collection of 10 essays that examine, dissect, defend, and exalt the greats of classic cult sci-fi films. Film geeks, cinema snobs, VHS collectors, and anyone else who likes their entertainment a little on the weird side will appreciate author Danny Peary’s in-depth approach to their favorite sci-fi films ranging from Barbarella to Liquid Sky.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular 1990s Science Fiction Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292739208

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Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents by Douglas Brode Pdf

Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Méliès’ 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time. Brode’s list ranges from today’s blockbusters to forgotten gems, with surprises for even the most informed fans and scholars. He presents the movies in chronological order, which effectively makes this book a concise history of the sci-fi film genre. A striking (and in many cases rare) photograph accompanies each entry, for which Brode provides a numerical rating, key credits and cast members, brief plot summary, background on the film’s creation, elements of the moviemaking process, analysis of the major theme(s), and trivia. He also includes fun outtakes, including his top ten lists of Fifties sci-fi movies, cult sci-fi, least necessary movie remakes, and “so bad they’re great” classics—as well as the ten worst sci-fi movies (“those highly ambitious films that promised much and delivered nil”). So climb aboard spaceship Brode and journey to strange new worlds from Metropolis (1927) to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

Author : Glenn Erickson
Publisher : Point Blank
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781434433107

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Sci-Fi Savant by Glenn Erickson Pdf

A compilation of selected review essays from Erickson's DVD Savant internet column, compiled to provide an overview of the science fiction genre.