Synopsis
VideoHound's Sci-Fi Experience explores the outer limits of film - 1,200 of the wildest and weirdest, from the Amazing Colossal Man to Zardoz. Its uncanny coverage of sci-fi TV series like The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner and The X-Files is really something to phone home about.
Here is just a sample of the 1,200 films covered: The Angry Red Planet; Barbarella; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Star Trek; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Death Race 2000; Godzilla, King of the Monsters; Star Wars; Dr. Who; It Came from Outer Space; Planet of the Apes; and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
As if that weren't enough to set your phasers flashing, Sci-Fi Experience is fairly bursting with 125 all-time favorite stills, a galaxy of movie quotes and tag lines, phenomenal Internet sites, fan clubs and sidebars on Japanimation, George Pal, Mexican Wrestling Superheros and lots more.
Review
Lovers of science fiction movies will be thrilled with this book, a comprehensive guide to the universe of available science fiction videos. VideoHound's Sci-Fi Experience offers commentary and reviews of science fiction films major and minor, serious and parodic, as well as assessments of the science fiction television series that can be found on tape. The guide is dotted with informative sidebars and a generous selection of photographic stills, and the appendix serves as a guide to stars, directors, and subgenres, and also provides a listing of science fiction Web sites, fan clubs, conventions, books, magazines, and newsletters. The volume lives up to the promise of the subtitle; it is truly a Quantum Guide to the Video Universe.
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