COLQ
2991: Global Science Fiction
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Links of interest:
Gothic Architecture: Horace Walpole’s Strawberry
Hill
Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein (1910)
Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Orson Welles’s infamous radio play version of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Chapter 1, “The Planet of Peril”
(1936)
The gothic
More
background
on the scientific romance
The Pulp era
The history of
pulp magazine art
Browse some pulp
magazines here
The Golden Age
More history of
the Golden Age of Science Fiction
The New Wave
The Futurama Ride
at the 1964 World’s Fair
Bruce Sterling’s Preface
to the cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades
SF
author Vernor Vinge on The Coming
Technological Singularity
Sense of Wonder:
The Science Fictional Sublime
The first anime: Tetsuwan Atomo (Astro Boy)
Wangari Mathaai’s Kenyan Greenbelt Movement
Films
Post-Singularity SF: Rogue
Farm
Future history: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s trailer for The Martian
The science fictional sublime: Wanderers
African SF: Pumzi
The science fictional grotesque: Tetsuo: The Iron
Man
More SF grotesque: John Carpenter’s The Thing
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time
The Lovecraftian short film The Deep Ones
Abiogenesis: a
post-singularity vision with a space-operatic, golden-age feel.
Renaissance: golden-age
visions of the technological sublime within an obscure new-wave narrative.
Robots of Brixton: a new-wave
mingling of robots and today’s British politics.
True Skin: the far-future as
cyberpunk.
Sight: the near future
as cyberpunk, or a golden-age vision of everyday life the day after tomorrow?
The Awareness: a chilling tale
of AI.
Sundays: a lavishly
produced dystopia with a new-wave sense of alienation.
Tea
Time:
steampunk with grrrl power.
Butterflies and
Breakfast Cereal:
time travel gone askew (when doesn’t time travel go askew?).