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This is an uncharacteristically earthbound performance for Adams, who until now has needed the limitless expanses of the universe to let him leap backward and forward through space, time and meaning. Still, Fish is the best evidence yet that Adams is not simply a funny sci-fi writer but a bomb-heaving satirist. Consider the spaceship that lands in central London, demolishing Harrods and disgorging a robot that demands, "Take me to your Lizard." On its world, Ford Prefect explains, "the people are people. The lizards are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people...
...were building a house, or raising a barn, as he helps to do in Witness. "I'm a technical actor, and my approach to both jobs is almost totally technical," he explains. "There's no magic involved, only work and circumstance." Ridley Scott, who directed Ford in the 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner, observes that, like a good carpenter, Ford is obsessive about small things. "After going over the story line, he'll turn to the details," says Scott. "He wants to know not only what the character looks like but what he'd wear, right down...
...animated lecture-leaving a mass of factoids swimming through the moviegoer's brain-and ends with the cry "For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!" So inward and remote does the movie seem, it might have arrived in a time capsule from one of the four warring planets. Most sci-fi movies offer escape, a holiday from homework, but Dune is as difficult as a final exam. You have to cram...
...called an MMU (manned maneuvering unit). Armed with a space-age lance nicknamed the stinger, he spears a stray satellite and rockets back to the mother ship. There, silhouetted against the shimmering earth some 225 miles below, he spins along at 17,500 m.p.h., shouldering his prize like a sci-fi Atlas...
...show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that a Hobbit industrialist would use. But Aalto was no whole-earth nostalgist. His 1947 snack tray, molded of thick white plastic with troughs for food, is sci-fi urban, and surely the most formal TV-dinner platter ever made...