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The phrase sounds exaggerated, like one of those legends that grows larger with each retelling. However, history records two separate moments when realistic radio drama unsettled ordinary citizens and blurred the line between fiction and fact. One took place in Britain in 1926. The other erupted in the United States in 1938, when Martians allegedly landed in New Jersey.


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On March 3, 1920, James Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He would grow up to portray Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott in "Star Trek," a character who helped define televised science fiction for a generation.

Doohan's life before Hollywood was marked by real combat. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery during...


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Science fiction has long translated grand ideas into unforgettable images. The curved dome of an alien hunter, the gleam of a chrome endoskeleton, or the steady gaze of a starship captain carries meaning beyond the frame of the film.

When rendered in three dimensional form, those images take on new solidity and presence, as if imagination itself has been given weight an...


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Jamis is often reduced to a single line in summaries of Dune, the Fremen warrior killed by Paul Atreides in a ritual knife duel. That description is accurate, yet incomplete. In Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, Jamis serves as the cultural and moral threshold throug...


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"The Quiet Earth" is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and based loosely on the novel by Craig Harrison. It enters a familiar tradition, that of the last man on Earth, yet it does so with uncommon sobriety. Where many films treat apocalypse as spectacle, this one treats it as a problem in logic and conscience. The result is a work that feels less like a dis...


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