The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies
By John Scalzi
2005
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The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the ''final frontier'' of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures. This guide explains how everything from the philosophy of Plato to classic Victorian tales and cult comic books have helped to create one of cinema''s most engaging genres. Discover the classics from Mexico, Russia and Japan, not forgetting the Anime science fiction tradition, along with everything else you need to know from Metropolis to Star Wars, via Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is your essential guide to a galaxy of film unbounded by time or space.
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Author
John Scalzi
Author · 83 books
John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent. (If you want to contact John, using the mail function here is a really bad way to do it. Go to his site and use the contact information you find there.)
