Science Fiction Classics

Philip K. Dick gave science fiction plenty of strange futures, but few begin as personally as "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." The novel opens on Tuesday, October 11, 1988, a date still 14 years in the future when the book appeared in 1974.

Jason Taverner begins as one of America's most famous men. He is a television star with 30...

"Star Trek" has been giving fans Halloween costume material for nearly 60 years. The franchise has uniforms, aliens, villains, captains, doctors, engineers, and enough strange forehead designs to keep a makeup department busy until Thanksgiving. A good Star Trek costume can be instantly recognizable without requiring a Hollywood wardrobe budget.

The original series rema...

On October 2, 1959, CBS aired "Where Is Everybody?" and introduced American television viewers to "The Twilight Zone." Rod Serling's new series opened with a simple mystery as a man wandered through an apparently abandoned town with no idea who he was or where everyone had gone.

Science fiction was hardly new to television, but Serlin...

H. G. Wells published "The Island of Doctor Moreau" in 1896, but the problem at its center has hardly grown old. What happens when scientific ability advances beyond the moral judgment of the man who possesses it? Wells takes that question into territory far darker than the distant island and maritime adventure of his premise initially suggest.

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A stranger wrapped in bandages arrives in the English village of Iping during bitter winter weather, takes a room at the local inn, and immediately makes everyone uncomfortable. He hides his face, guards his privacy, surrounds himself with scientific equipment, and reacts badly when the villagers become curious. H.G. Wells needs little more than this odd i...