Octavia Butler's "favorite" movie!
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Octavia Butler's "favorite" movie!
Here it is, Devil Girl from Mars, the movie Butler says got her started writing, because it was SO bad that anyone could write a better story. Now you can watch this cinematic gem too!
"I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite." -- Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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Thanks for posting this. Butler is one of my favorite writers ever. I have an Octavia Bulter bibliography around here. Ill have to add this when I get home today.
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Man-hungry women from Mars and earth-men don't want to go ?!It was one of those old 1950s movies in which the beautiful Martian woman arrives on earth to announce that all the Martian men have died off and there are a bunch of man-hungry women up there. And the earth-men don't want to go.
Fucking unreal movies...
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Awful?! This film is a defining example of one of the most ubiquitous motifs used in British science fiction films of a certain vintage - it's set in a pub.
(IIRC there is actually quite a good essay about British science fiction films set in pubs in one of the books I read for my dissertation )
I've got a soft spot for this film.. but yeah, it is bloody awful Great linkage though thanks.
(IIRC there is actually quite a good essay about British science fiction films set in pubs in one of the books I read for my dissertation )
I've got a soft spot for this film.. but yeah, it is bloody awful Great linkage though thanks.
And that, children, is how the little bunny rabbit got his fluffy white tail.
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
--Darko Suvin; On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
--Darko Suvin; On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre
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What was your dissertation on?
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
-James C. Harwood, Science Fiction Writer, Straight (March 5, 1956 - May 25, 2010)
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-James C. Harwood, Science Fiction Writer, Straight (March 5, 1956 - May 25, 2010)
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Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shitOmphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
And that, children, is how the little bunny rabbit got his fluffy white tail.
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
--Darko Suvin; On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre
As a minimum, we must demand from SF that it be wiser than the world it speaks to.
--Darko Suvin; On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre
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Did you rely on a lot of older stuff for support?Himachil wrote:Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shitOmphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
-James C. Harwood, Science Fiction Writer, Straight (March 5, 1956 - May 25, 2010)
The Omphalos Umbrella Page
-James C. Harwood, Science Fiction Writer, Straight (March 5, 1956 - May 25, 2010)
The Omphalos Umbrella Page