Tag: space travel

• First of the Fifties

    Movie producer George Pal with Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis   Destination Moon produced by George Pal, is widely considered the first science fiction film to attempt a high level of accurate technical detail. Filmed in Technicolor, based on a book by Robert Heinlein, adapted for the screen by Alford Van Ronkel and James O’Hanlon,…

  Bill Ectric

  July 10, 2014

  Alford Van Ronkel, Chelsey Bonestell, Destination Moon, Dick Wesson, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Film, George Pal, Irving Pichel, James O’Hanlon, Robert Heinlein, rockets, Rocketship X-M, Science Fiction, Scott Ashlin, space travel, Tom Powers, Warner Anderson

• Suit Up

             Right:  Gary Westfahl   At LOCUS Online, Paul Di Filippo reviews the new book, The Spacesuit Film: A History 1918 – 1969, by one of my favorite commentators, the  always erudite and entertaining Dr. Gary Westfahl. Filippo says: As the subtitle to this volume indicates, Westfahl will venture back almost to the dawn of cinema to…

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  October 3, 2012

  Gary Westfahl, LOCUS Online, outer space, Paul Di Filippo, space suits, space travel, The Spacesuit Film

• We Chose to Put a Man on the Moon

  Gary Westfahl has written an intriguing essay on the science fiction of J. G. Ballard. Here are a couple of excerpts to whet your appetite: “The question that should be haunting science fiction is: why did Ballard get it right, while all of the other science fiction writers were getting it wrong? Why did their apparently logical and well-grounded predictions about…

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  April 25, 2012

  Gary Westfahl, J. G. Ballard, Memories of the Space Age, NASA, rockets, Science Fiction, space program, space travel