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The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the ''final frontier'' of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures. This guide explains how everything from the philosophy of Plato to classic Victorian tales and cult comic books have helped to create one of cinema''s most engaging genres. Discover the classics from Mexico, Russia and Japan, not forgetting the Anime science fiction tradition, along with everything else you need to know from Metropolis to Star Wars, via Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is your essential guide to a galaxy of film unbounded by time or space.

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  • Paperback: 325 pages
  • Publisher: Rough Guides (October 17, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1843535203
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843535201
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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John Scalzi sent the following post to customers who purchased The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 1 (Rough Guide Reference)
 
8:14 AM PST, January 6, 2006, updated at 8:18 AM PST, January 6, 2006
Hi, there.

If you've clicked along this far to find out more about me, I hope you might be willing to make on additional click over to my personal site, Scalzi.com, and to my writing site, updated more or less daily, called Whatever. Here's the link -- just click that to go through (if for some reason the link doesn't work, the URL is: http://www.scalzi.com/whatever).

What will you find there? As the title implies, you'll find me writing about whatever thoughts are rolling around in my head at this particular moment in time. Topics I write about frequently include writing (naturally enough!), politics, home life, tech geekery, parenting, science, religion, and so on. I also post lots of pictures and generally putter around like an idjit. It's fun, or what passes for fun when one is staring at a screen full of phosphors.

Now, a caveat: the Whatever is a personal site, and I write there without worrying whether or not what I'm writing might potentially aggravate, alienate or just plain confuse people who are simply wandering by. So while you might go there and find me to be an interesting and fabulous person, you might also go there and find me to be a big fat jerk. It all depends.

This is the drawback of getting to know too much about the people whose books you are reading: at the end of the day, they're people too, with just as many good points and bad points as anyone else. Personally speaking, I don't mind that much; some of my favorite writers are often also people whose politics or points of view on life, the universe and everything are ones I don't particularly share. I just like their writing, period, end of story. It's something to keep in mind.

Caveat aside, I do love getting new visitors, so I hope you'll consider this an open invitation to come on by and learn a little more about me. I look forward to meeting you! Also, feel free also to drop me a note through e-mail, at an address I've created expecially for readers: "author@scalzi.com". I try to answer all the e-mail I get, although sometimes I'm better at this than others. I definitely read every (non-spam) piece of mail I get, however. So send away!

See you soon,

John Scalzi
 
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