Future Tense: The Cinema of Science FictionCovers special effects, plot summaries, and analyses of the greatest and most notorious films, among them "The Thing", Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", and "Star Wars." |
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Foreword by Harry Harrison | 6 |
The Boom Goes On 197376 | 217 |
A Close Encounter With Star Wars 197778 | 239 |
Copyright | |
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