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The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Phil Hardy
Publisher: Overlook TP
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 202259
Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0879516267
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780879516260
ASIN: 0879516267
Publication Date: October 1, 1995
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Amazon.com Review
This encyclopedia of science fiction movies is the most comprehensive and perhaps the best of Phil Hardy's collection (check out iThe Western/i and iHorror/i as well). It provides excellent commentary on the hundreds of science fiction films made between 1895 and 1994. Each review also lists the movie's director, star, writer, and most important technical credits. Hardy's treatment of the genre runs the gamut from the sublime to the absurd, covering classics such as iMetropolis/i and iThings to Come/i, popular favorites such as iStar Wars/i and iE.T./i, and the silly excesses of iDr. Breedlove/i and iThe Man with Two Brains/i. The volume also includes a list of science fiction rental champs and important writers and critics' nominees for the best sci-fi films of all time.
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Outstanding! March 30, 2008
H TERESA K
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an outstanding book. Great reference and all that implies. I like Science Fiction and this book is indispensable. Seems to be little known but it is an outstanding reference work.
 Science Fiction Encylopedia December 7, 2007
Natasha (Australia)
Bought this as a present for my husband though i had a look in it and it covers a-z of Sci-Fi flicks. Would recommend to any fan.
Buy two...you'll wear the first one out! June 26, 2005
A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had this excellent book for several years, and I still go back to it at least once a month to look something up. There is simply no more complete reference guide to science fiction films available. Think you know science fiction cinema? Prepare to be humbled by the sheer volume of this book. I especially appreciate the reviews of the early, silent films, many of which we will probably never get to see. br / br /Some of the reviews are better thought-out than others. And you may occasionally marvel at how a film you were sure was an all-time classic only gets a mediocre review. But these are minor quibbles for an otherwise excellent volume. br / br /If you're a fan of sci-fi films, you absolutely MUST own this book. Yes, it's pricey, but it also might be the last film reference book you will ever need.
Outstanding reference work! January 28, 2001
Robert Godwin (Burlington, Ontario Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This really has to be recognised as a monumental reference work. The sheer breadth of material found and reviewed by Hardy is extraordinary. I will be using this book for years to come.
UN SUEA`O HECHO REALIDAD October 18, 1999
SANTIAGO GALLEGO MURILLO (SEVILLA Spain)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Hardy entrega a los fans mas exigentes del cine de ciencia ficcion un trabajo colosal, absolutamente recomendable, de enorme envergadura (se analizan, ano a ano, con detalle 1.550 peliculas), trazado con sumo cuidado (cada critica, analiza la obra y habla del autor, haciendo referencia a otras obras destacadas del genero...y cada decada se abre con un miniensayo sobre el panorama del genero), y con enorme amplitud de miras (no se centra unicamente en el cine anglosajon, sino que cubre peliculas de todo el mundo). Es muy dificil dar cantidad y calidad, pero Hardy triunfa en extension y en detallismo.p El genial libro de Phil Hardy sirve tanto para el profano en la materia como para el profesional que necesita informacion mas detallada y rigurosa, no defraudando a nadie...realmente es muy dificil que entre las 1.550 peliculas, desde los origenes del cine hasta 1994, que se critican (NO SE TRATA DE MERAS SINOPSIS ARGUMENTALES... sino que a una pequena ficha tecnica, y a la sipnosis, se une una critica valorativa, e informacion sobre el director, la realizacion, u otros detalles de interes) no este lo que andas buscando, por el contrario encontraras gran cantidad de titulos de los que jamas habias oido hablar.p Para redondear esta imprescindible obra, anadir que la edicion esta realmente muy cuidada (en gran formato), con estupendo papel, y que se incluyen mas de 500 fotografias (todas en blanco y negro) realmente fantasticas. Solo pienso que deberian haberse anadido mas indices, pues resulta muy complicado encontrar peliculas por director.p Para todo amante del cine fantastico, esta obra se complementa con su homologa del cine de terror,tambien de Hardy...creo que seria una buena idea, agrupar ambos volumenes, en una edicion de lujo Fantastique, con caja y tapa dura, seria ideal para coleccionistas.
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