From the Book - First edition.
Lurching down memory lane with It, Them, The Thing, Godzilla, HAL 9000 ... that whole crowd: an overview of the science fiction cinema / Harlan Ellison
Welcoming the future / Joan Mellen
Thoughts on how science fiction films depict the future / Nicholas Meyer
Survivors: the day after doomsday / Robert C. Cumbow
Metropolis wars: the city as character in science fiction films / Philip Strick
Movie science / Issac Asimov
Sex in science fiction films: romance or engineering? / David Thomson
Prometheus: the scientist and his creations / Robert C. Cumbow
Fear of intelligence in futuristic films / David Thomson
Master and Metropolis / Robert Bloch
Demi-docs: just imagine and things to come / Frederik Pohl
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers: an interview with Buster Crabbe / by Danny Peary
Heinlein on film: destination moon / Michael Goodwin
1984: Orwell compromised / Allen Eyles
Superego confrontation on Forbidden Planet / Martin Sutton
On the Beach: a renewed interest / Stanley Kramer
Jules Verne influence on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Five Weeks in a Balloon / Charles Bennett
"The Seventh Victim" and The 10th Victim / Robert Sheckley
Fahrenheit 451 : from novel to film / Gerald Peary
No blade of grass: a warning for our time / Cornel Wilde
New beginning on Terminal Island / Stephanie Rothman
Cannibalized novel becomes Soylent green / Harry Harrison
Remaking of Dark Star / Dan O'Bannon
Death Race 2000: New World's Violent Future / Paul Bartel
Playing Ripley in Alien: An Interview with Sigourney Weaver / by Danny Peary
Battle Beyond the Stars: Notes from a Tacky Galaxy / John Sayles
Outland: out of its mind but, sadly, not out of sight / Harlan Ellison
Cafe flesh: midnight hit for a pornographic age / Jerry Stahl
Way the future looks: THX 1138 and Blade runner / Robert Silverberg
WarGames and the Real world / John Badham
Designing the future / Syd Mead
Creating tomorrow today: SF's special effects wizards / Frederik Pohl IV
Special effectiveness of George Pal / Robert Bloch
Cautionary fables: an interview with Roger Corman / by Ed Naha
Futuristic films of Stanley Kubrick / Richard Schickel
Peter Watkins: political and pessimistic / Sally Hibbin
When men and machines go wrong: an interview with Michael Crichton / by Danny Peary
Inner search for Spock: an interview with Leonard Nimoy / by Ed Naha
Mathemagicians: computer moviemakers of the 1980s and beyond / Tom Onosko
Directing Mad Max and The road warrior: an interview with George Miller / by Danny Peary
Andrei Tarkovsky: Russia's science fiction poet / Michael Wilmington
Directing Alien and Blade runner: an interview with Ridley Scott / by Danny Peary.