Following last year's double feature idea, after founder Jayce Fryman stepped down, I wanted a looser (and easier and hopefully more enjoyable) criteria this year. I took the liberty of creating this list as didn't see anyone else take over and I wanted April's Sci-Fi Marathon to exist this year. Hope that's okay!
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Science fiction has been about our capacity to marvel, to tell ourselves amazing stories, filled either with hope or caution or both. That also usually requires not spoiling the story for ourselves before we've experienced it. I purposefully designed the criteria below to allow anyone to create a list of up to 30 films without too much research about each film's story.
> 8 decades
> 6…
Following last year's double feature idea, after founder Jayce Fryman stepped down, I wanted a looser (and easier and hopefully more enjoyable) criteria this year. I took the liberty of creating this list as didn't see anyone else take over and I wanted April's Sci-Fi Marathon to exist this year. Hope that's okay!
⚗️ ✨️
Science fiction has been about our capacity to marvel, to tell ourselves amazing stories, filled either with hope or caution or both. That also usually requires not spoiling the story for ourselves before we've experienced it. I purposefully designed the criteria below to allow anyone to create a list of up to 30 films without too much research about each film's story.
> 8 decades
> 6 countries
> 4 sci-fi titles which intrigue you enough to watch
> 4 sci-fi posters which intrigue you enough to watch
> 3 Hugo Award winning or nominated sci-fi films
> 3 sci-fi films with less than 2,024 views on letterboxd
> 2 linked sci-fi films (same franchise, same director, etc.)
In 1926, Hugo Gernsback published the first American science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. In its first issue, he wrote: "By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are always instructive. They supply knowledge... in a very palatable form... New adventures pictured for us in the scientifiction of today are not at all impossible of realization tomorrow...
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