5-25-77
An overlong and uneven but heartfelt and reality-centered period piece that’s only partially about STAR WARS
THE LUNAR TRILOGY
Another example of a publication that should have received far more attention than it did: the premiere English version of Jerzy Zulawski’s LUNAR TRILOGY (1901-11)
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
I say VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS deserves a bit more attention than it’s thus far received, if only because it was one of the most calamitous flops of the 2010s
Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE, and THE TOURIST
I feel that had these scripts been filmed the face of cinema may well have been transformed irrevocably
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A film that was quite controversial upon its initial release in 1971 and remains a topic of enormous contention
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
RAW MEAT
An ambitious exercise in science fiction themed smut fiction, and, I’m afraid, not a very successful one
THE LONG TOMORROW AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
Overall this book ranks far from the top in the Moebius hierarchy, yet contains one absolutely indispensable portion: the Dan O’Bannon scripted title story
STARSHIP TROOPERS
A would-be blockbuster from 1998 that saw director Paul Verhoeven and much of the crew of ROBOCOP (1987) trying to recapture the elusive magic of that classic
SENSITIVE SPOTS
A little-known example of Central European science fiction, set in the far-off year 1998