Cyber Punked: Looking Back At The Lawnmower Man
How the macabre Stephen King short story was morphed into a nonsensical virtual reality sci-fi action film.
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The Happylife Home: Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt
Exploring the lesser-known film and TV adaptations of Ray Bradbury’s disturbingly prophetic tale of virtual reality and smart homes.
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Seeing Through The Invisible Man
The short-lived but better than you might expect TV series of the 1970s.
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Science Fiction Cinema Grows Up: Fritz Lang’s Woman In The Moon
The pioneering and influential space travel silent classic is a mixed bag of melodrama and innovation.
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Flymo To The Moon: Sex, Sci-Fi And Lawnmowers In 1970s Advertising
Hot Gossip do their best to make FlyMo lawnmowers look futuristic and sexy.
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The Flash Gordon Novels Of The 1970s
The series of novels based around the legendary comic strip sci-fi hero Flash Gordon that appeared – with very different covers – in the US and UK during the Seventies.
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The Boy From Space: BBC Juvenile Science Fiction
The vintage children’s TV science fiction show from the 1970s.
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The Solarnauts – Britain’s Lost Sci-Fi Show
The trashy but fun pilot for a 1967 space opera TV series is well worth a look.
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Out Of The Unknown – The Pioneering British Science Fiction TV Series
The classic and literary BBC sci-fi series from the 1960s.
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The Monster Movie Magazines Of The Sixties
A complete visual history of the first explosion of horror movie magazines.
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Enjoy The Wet Sounds Of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World
An immersive and watery performance of Ballard’s dystopian novel at this year’s Essex Book Festival.
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