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Waking Up From the Dream: Science Fiction in the 1990s
CGI crosses the uncanny threshold, cyberpunk gets a second wave, and an entire decade of science fiction starts asking the same unsettling question: how do you know any of this is real?
Chrome, Sweat and Neon: Science Fiction in the 1980s
Practical effects at their absolute peak, synth scores humming under every frame, and a decade that gave the genre its franchises, its cyberpunk future and its most quotable one-liners.
Paranoia and Wonder: Science Fiction in the 1970s
From dystopian overpopulation dread to a galaxy far, far away — how the decade of Watergate and Vietnam produced science fiction's most cynical decade, then reinvented itself in a single year.
Retrofuturism: Tomorrow, As Yesterday Imagined It
From Metropolis's deco spires to Tomorrowland's abandoned World's Fair optimism: how the future our grandparents imagined became a genre of its own — atompunk, dieselpunk, raygun gothic and the used future, in fifteen films.
Cyberpunk: High Tech, Low Life — the Movement and Its Canon
From Metropolis to Blade Runner 2049: how one line of William Gibson prose became cinema's most durable vision of the future — and the fifteen films that built it.