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...only claim to outright novelty is his predilection for science fiction, represented by three stories in this collection. But even here, as in the memorable title piece of his previous book of stories, Among the Dangs (1961), he insists on the moral. The sci-fi gimmicks of his fantasy worlds point metaphorically back to the truths of the real world. Into the Cone of Cold is typical: a poet allows himself to be frozen and thawed out again in a scientific experiment; beyond the spooky suspense of the situation, the cone of cold comes to stand for a state...
...that Kubrick has taken off on his space kick, his fans are convinced that a sci-fi renaissance is on its way. As the spy film sinks slowly in the West, and the western sinks rapidly into TV, studios are occupied with some dozen ambitious fantasy features, ranging from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, to the high-camp French comic strip Barbarella, with Jane Fonda. The next trend for Kubrick? All he will give away is that it will be "a mind boggler...
...DRAMA: THX 1138 4EB, by George Lucas, 23, of U.S.C., is a sci-fi chiller that looks at a cowardly new world where two varieties of humanoids, the "erosbods" and "clinicbods," wander through dark corridors and light-pierced concrete caverns in pursuit of the only truly human character, "THX" (pronounced with a lisp). A vision of 1984, it evoked in 15 minutes a future world in which man is enslaved by computers and TV monitors. Although portentous in theme, THX impressed the judges with its technical virtuosity: Lucas shot his future-oriented film entirely in present-day Los Angeles-much...
Fantastic Voyage is the most expensive ($6,500,000) sci-fi spectacle of all time, and maybe the most entertaining since the world was terrorized by a hairy rubber doll named King Kong...
...have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global scale. In this unpersuasive sci-fi thriller directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape), it is only a matter of time until someone gravely inquires: "How worried are they in Washington...