Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction

Original title: The Real History of Science Fiction

TV Mini Series
2014

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Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Nathan Fillion, Nichelle Nichols, and Zoe Saldaña in Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction (2014)

A definitive exploration of science fiction's enduring themes - time travel, space exploration, robots/AI, and aliens - through cinema, TV, and literature, with insights from the genre's vis... Read allA definitive exploration of science fiction's enduring themes - time travel, space exploration, robots/AI, and aliens - through cinema, TV, and literature, with insights from the genre's visionary creators.A definitive exploration of science fiction's enduring themes - time travel, space exploration, robots/AI, and aliens - through cinema, TV, and literature, with insights from the genre's visionary creators.

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Dominic Sandbrook

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David Tennant

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Rutger Hauer

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Mark Gatiss

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Neil Gaiman

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Charlie Jane Anders

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Haley Joel Osment

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Christopher Lloyd

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Rian Johnson

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John Landis

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Keir Dullea

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Gale Anne Hurd

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Phil Tippett

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Edward Neumeier

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Douglas Trumbull

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Michio Kaku

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Adam Rogers

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Zoe Saldaña

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6/10

History of SF movies and TV shows, WH in first place

The title is pretty much misleading, or just incorrect. It starts with some famous actors and is focused on SF movies and TV serials, in 98% time approx. From 4 announced corners (Robots, Space, Invasion, Time travel) I seen so far first 2. There were some interesting fact mentioned, like influence of movie Silent Runner on George Lucas and Star Wars. But in Robot episode there was really little talk about SF literature. Of course, they cited Asimov's 3 laws of Robotic - but what about European writers ?

Little better was at start of Space episode - at least they mentioned Verne, Wells .. Still, literature was just marginally touched. It is shame, especially as right at start was said that history of SF is history of imagination. Watching movies is not imagination. Reading books is. But it seems that nowadays it gets forgotten.

What's that WH in summary - Western Hemisphere :-) There were some nice movies, TV serials made in EU - completely ignored.