CHTHON
One of the foremost “dangerous visions” of the late 1960s was this once-shocking interplanetary reverie, the first novel by the prolific fantasist Piers Anthony
HOPE
I’m not entirely sure what director Na Hong-jin was trying to do with this alien invasion-themed action-horror fest, but he doesn’t appear to have succeeded
ROBOCOP
Quite possibly the apotheosis of the 1980s action movie boom, and a major entry in the decade’s cyberpunk triumvirate (begun with BLADE RUNNER and THE TERMINATOR)
MEMORY RUN
Nobody seems to remember this Canadian made sci-fier from 1995, and there’s a reason for that
SOLARIS (1972)
The third feature by Andrei Tarkovsky and his first foray into science fiction, SOLARIS is the most famous such film to emerge from Russia
LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
ANCIENT OF DAYS
An “Anthropological SF Masterpiece”? Not quite, but a damn good novel nonetheless
MY SCIENCE PROJECT
A 1985 Disney product that partook, clumsily, of the year’s popular teens-and-SF movie model
PAYCHECK
Further proof that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to the work of Philip K. Dick
THE SOULSUCKER
A long out-of-print paperback, involving blood drinking alien spiders, that really isn’t very good at all