science fiction: Media
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On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein;...
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Learn about Edgar Allan Poe's place in the Gothic literary tradition and his influence...
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Exploring the science and fiction of Marvel Comics' Avengers' powers.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about the grandfather paradox and the concept of time travel to the past.
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Images
The starship Enterprise from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock...
© 1984 Paramount Pictures Corporation
Illustration from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Captain...
British Library—Album/Alamy
Illustration by Albert Robida, from the 1880s, depicting flat-screen, home-theatre...
Photograph, Christine E. Haycock, M.D.
Cover of the November 1926 issue of Amazing Stories by Frank R. Paul. The...
Photograph, Christine E. Haycock, M.D.
Movie poster depicting the characters Gol (Yury Zavadsky; left) and Tuskub (Konstantin...
Hershenson-Allen Archive
The inventor C.A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) and his robotic invention (Brigitte...
From a private collection
Publicity still from the Flash Gordon serial, 1936; (left to right) Princess...
© Universal Pictures
Gort (left) and Klaatu, played by Lock Martin and Michael Rennie, respectively, in...
©Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved
Movie poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956).
Hershenson-Allen Archive
Stanley Kubrick (foreground) directing a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey...
© 1968 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Scene from Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott.
© 1979 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; photograph from a private collection
Scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), directed...
© 2003 New Line Cinema Productions, Inc.
Six-sheet poster from the motion picture Things to Come, directed by William...
From a private collection
Dust jacket for the first American edition of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret...
Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., Merchantville, N.J.
Poster for the Italian release of the motion picture The War of the Worlds,...
From a private collection
Poster from the motion picture Forbidden Planet, directed by Fred M. Wilcox,...
From a private collection
(From left) Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Metropolis,...
From a private collection
Played by Haley Joel Osment, David the robot (foreground), the subject of the film...
© 2001 Warner Bros, Inc.
The sidekick “droids” R2-D2 (right) and C-3PO from the original Star Wars trilogy...
© 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd./Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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