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<i>Forbidden Planet</i>: The Moment Hollywood Got Serious About Sci Fi Cinema

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Scene from Forbidden Planet, featuring Anne Francis (as Altaira Morbius), Leslie Nielsen (as Cmmr. James J. Adams), and Robby the Robot
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Science Fiction Film Club

Forbidden Planet: The Moment Hollywood Got Serious About Sci Fi Cinema

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Black and white image from the film Le Voyage dans la Lune: a large spacecraft capsule has crashed onto the moon, directly into the face of "the man on the moon"
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Science Fiction Film Club

Introducing the Reactor Science Fiction Film Club!

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Spaceship in Forbidden Planet
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movies

Another One of Them New Worlds: Revisiting Forbidden Planet

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robots

The Greatest Science Fiction Robots of All Time

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On Our Radar

Mark Hamill, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and More: Amazing Photos from 40 Years of Forbidden Planet

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Thor, 2011, Marvel
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Shakespeare

What We Mean When We Call Something “Shakespearean”

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Featured Essays
SFF Geology

The Science of Desert Planets

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See Paul Cornell, Zen Cho, and Cassandra Khaw at Forbidden Planet London!

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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet Events and How We Run Them

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Books
artificial intelligence

The Future is Here and it Doesn’t Need You: Top Ten Movies About Killer Artificial Intelligence

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Books
George R.R. Martin

Popcorn is Coming: George R.R. Martin’s Movie Theater Reopens!

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Elizabeth Knox

The Psychology of Invisible Monsters

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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