SCIENCE FICTION SCIENCE FICTION  Ambitious study of the history of the SF/Fantasy genres from a Humanistic perspective. In Six parts and with a Bibliography too. PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6   

                            THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY.

0. Adams, Douglas - THE - HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY/THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. 1980. Pan Books.

0. Aldiss, Brian - TRILLION YEAR SPREE (THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION. 1988 Paladin.

0. Asimov, Isaac - I, ROBOT. 1967. Grafton Books.

0. Atwood, Margaret - THE HANDMAID’S TALE - 198?. Virago.

0. Bradbury, Ray -THE SILVER LOCUSTS; aka THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES 1950 Doubleday.

0. Chrichton, Michael - JURASSIC PARK. - 1990 Pallatine Books.THE LOST WORLD (199???)

0. Clarke, Arthur C. - CHILDHOOD'S END 1953. Pallantine Books.

0. D.C. COMICS - GRAPHIC NOVELS TRILOGY THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN/WORLD WITHOUT A SUPERMAN/THE RETURN OF SUPERMAN

0. Dick, Philip K,. - DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (1968) (also issued under film title BLADERUNNER) 1969. PUBLISHER????

0. Farmer, Phillip Hose - JESUS ON MARS (19 ) ??????

0. Faulkner, Peter - HUMANISM IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL 1975. Elek/Pemberton Press.

0. Frank, Alan - SCI-FI NOW!. 1978. Octopus.

0. Fulton, Roger - THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TV SCIENCE FICTION. 1990 Boxtree.

0. THE GREAT WRITERS PARTWORKS COLLECTION. (Particularly the sections on (and accompanying books by) Aldous Huxley, Mary Shelley and H.G. WELLS. Marshall Cavendish publications.

0. THE FREETHINKER June/July 1994. My Star Trek piece - HUMANISM; KEYNOTE OF STAR SHIP SPACE QUESTS

0. Gunn, James - THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION 1988 Viking.

0. Le Gunn, Ursula - THE DISPOSSESSED 1974 Victor Gollancz.

0. Hanmond, J.R. - A H.G. WELLS COMPANION 1979. Macmillan

0. Robert A Heinlan - STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND 1991 New English Library.

0. Herbert, Frank - DUNE 1965. New English Library.

0. Hubbard, L. Ron - BATTLEFIELD EARTH. 1982 New Era.

0. Huxley, Aldous - BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932) Marshall Cavendish Edition ISLAND

0. Maxim Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards (Editors) THE COMPLETE BOOK SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LISTS

0. THE HUTCHINSON DICTIONARY OF IDEAS. 1994.

0. Miller, Walter M. - A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ. 1959. The Science Fiction Book Club.

0. Nicholls, Peter - The ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION. 1979. GRANADA.

0. Nicholls, Peter - FANTASTIC CINEMA - 1984. Banbury Press. London.

0. Orwell, George 1984. 1949 Penguin Classics.

0. Okrand, Mark THE KLINGON DICTIONARY. 1992 Pocket Books.

0. Pratchett, Terry - PYRAMIDS. The seventh DISCWORLD Novel. 1993. Corgi.

0. Pringle, David - SCIENCE FICTION THE 100 BEST NOVELS. 1984. Xanadu Press.

0. Martin Seymour Smith - NOVELS AND NOVELISTS. 1980. Windward Press.

0. Stapledon, Olaf - LAST AND FIRST MEN (1930 Penguin

0. Kurt Vonnigutt Jnr. CAT'S CRADLE - 1963. Jonathan Cape. - THE SIRENS OF TITAN. 1968 Coronet. Kurt Vonnigutt Jnr. -SIAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE. 1969 Kurt Vonnigutt Jnr. - SLAPSTICK (or, LONESOME NO MORE) 1976. Jonathan Cape. COLLECTED ESSAYS). 1965. Dell Publishing.

0. Walker, Howe-Stammers - DOCTOR WHO: THE HANDBOOK TO THE FIRST DOCTOR. 1994. Virgin books.

0. Wells, H.G. - SELECTED SHORT STORIES. 1958. Penguin. Also; THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, THE TIME MACHINE. DATE THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, in a H.G. WELLS Compendium edition by Book Club Associates 1980.

FILMS

1. BLADERUNNER (1982)

1. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

1. FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

1. FRANKENSTIEN (1931 & 1994)

1. THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956),

1. JURASSIC PARK (1993)

1. KING KONG (1933),

1. METROPOLIS

1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968).

1. STAR TREK, THE MOTION PICTURE (1979; plus its sequels).

1. STAR WARS (1977 and its sequels & prequels)

1. THINGS TO COME (1936)

1. 2001, A SPACE ODDESSY (1968),

1. WESTWORLD· (1973)

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

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X-files for sceptics

RELIGION IN DR. WHO.

SKEPTICISM IN THE CINEMA

THE TOP TEN FILMS FOR SKEPTICS.