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The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy PDF

The science fiction genre has offered fertile ground for film-makers since the late nineteenth century, giving us everything from forgettable nonsense like Astro Zombies and I Married a Monster from Outer Space to some of the greatest films ever made: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the classic horror/SF movies of the thirties, and more. This volume of The Aurum Film Encyclopedia offers plot summaries and full statistical information on over 1,200 science fiction films, from the pioneering efforts of Georges Melies to E.T., The Return of the Jedi, and beyond. It is the first book on the subject to be fully international in scope, containing films not only from North America and Western Europe, but also from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe. Science Fiction includes lists of the top-grossing films, all Oscar winners, the favourite films of both critics and science fiction writers, plus a list of the winners of the Trieste Festival of Science Fiction Films. With over 450 black and white stills and 16 pages of colour plates, this spectacular volume will take its place next to The Western as the most thorough catalogue of its genre ever published.

The great directors from Georges Melics to Steven Spielberg
The comic-book serials of Buck Rogers and Superman
The Japanese Kaiju Eiga - those incredible monster movies
The literary adaptations from Jules Verne to Arthur C. Clarke
Horror/SF, comedy/SF, Western/SF and other variations
George Lucas and the modem science fiction movie industry
The spectacular Russian science fiction films Aelita, Stalker, Planeta Burg and others
The classics: Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alphaville, Star Wars and more

About The Authors
Phil Hardy is the principal contributor to Science Fiction as well as its editor. He has written extensively on popular music and the cinema for numerous publications, has taught film, and helped organize seasons at the National Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Film Festival. His previous publications include Samuel Fuller, the three-volume Encyclopedia of Rock and the highly praised The Western, Volume l of The Aurum Film Encyclopedia. He is currently engaged on a history of the record industry.

Denis Gifford is the creator of the long-running television series, Looks Familiar. Among his many publications are Science Fiction Film, The Pictorial History of Horror Movies, The British Film Catalogue, 1895-1970 and Chaplin.

Anthony Masters is a novelist, biographer; television scriptwriter and broadcaster He has just completed a biography of Maxwell Knight of MI5 and his latest novel is Red Ice, written with Nick Barker,

Paul Taylor is a London-based freelance writer and researcher on film and television. A former programmer of the ICA and Birmingham Arts Lab, he has worked in several departments of the British Film Institute. He is currently writing a critical dictionary of screenwriters.

Paul Willemen has served on the editorial board of Screen magazine and is currently on the board of Framework. His publications include works on Roger Corman, Jacques Tourneur and Pasolini.

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