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On Aug. 13, 1953, "The War of the Worlds" opened in New York and brought H. G. Wells' Martian invasion to American movie screens. Producer George Pal and director Byron Haskin moved Wells' story from Victorian England to 1950s California and turned it into one of the defining science fiction films of the atomic age.
The Martians arriv...
Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" arrived in 1999 with the dimensions of a doorstop and the ambitions of a small national government. It mixed World War II, mathematics, cryptography, buried treasure, computer programming, international business, electronic money, and the early Internet into a novel of more than 900 pages. Readers who prefer their fict...
Hal Clement belonged to the generation of writers who helped give the Golden Age of science fiction its reputation for intellectual ambition. Trained in astronomy and chemistry, he approached speculative fiction with the habits of a scientist. When "Mission of Gravity" appeared in book form in 1954, Clement pushed that approach farther than most of his...
On August 4, 1997, the U.S. military brought Skynet online in the future history of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." When the movie reached theaters in 1991, that date was still six years away. It now belongs to a past that never happened, although the warning behind it has become more familiar.
Skynet did not destroy humanity immediatel...
like the scars of a veteran who had survived what lesser warriors could not.
Technical knowledge also mattered because courage alone did not guarantee victory. Manuals, plans, and engineering records showed how a weapon or vessel survived, where its strength came from, and how far a skilled crew could push it. Klingons respected bold action, but they also understood tha...