Many sci-fi movies lose their edge when society catches up to the speculative premise at the center of the story, but here ...

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Every year, science fiction fans from across the globe visit a nature reserve in search of an alien landing site. A sandpit in Woking's Horsell Common features in HG Wells' 1898 The War of the Worlds ...

Wildly accurate futuristic warnings wrapped in storytelling that now feels unsettlingly familiar. A gripping selection of sci-fi classics that saw what was coming., Books, Times Now ...

There was a film version of “1984,” but I refuse to accept it as an effort. The same goes for a version of Asimov’s “Foundation and Empire” of which I have seen parts. I am going to just say the film ...

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