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...result has been a relentless stream of outrageous books, movies and television shows, beginning with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published 61 years ago, and continuing through the summer's box-office behemoth, Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love stories -- even a sci-fi parody of an old pop song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning Classics | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...another planet Jaye Davidson will again play I've Got a Secret. The Crying Game transvestite is about to don the robes of King Ra in the sci- fi epic Stargate. What's Jaye's gender this time? The producers coyly say only that Ra is an "enigmatic ruler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Furthermore: Nov. 8, 1993 | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Harvard Film Archive. Ridley Scott'ssci-fi classic "Blade Runner" at 10:00 p.m. Veryloosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story "DoAndroids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Director's cut.Recommended by Fifteen Minutes.6 October Wednesday

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...told him. "You don't understand. My parents have spent the last year lecturing my eighteen-year-old brother on the dangers of tattoo parlor needles, and so if I come home for Thanksgiving with "Semper Fi" stamped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This was the deal: | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Imagine a film with the legal smarts of a John Grisham novel and a sci-fi concept wilder than Deep Space Nine. Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, the filmmakers behind House Party and Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legal Sci-Fi | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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