{"id":6456,"date":"2004-08-31T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/31\/significant-sf-films.html"},"modified":"2004-08-31T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T21:26:41","slug":"significant_sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/significant_sf.html","title":{"rendered":"Significant SF Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author John Scalzi is soliciting from folks their votes for the Fifty Most Significant SF Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As some of you know, I’m currently writing The Rough Guide to Science Fiction Film, <\/em>which will be a general overview of the history of Science Fiction in films, with chapters on some various themes (science in science fiction, SF film icons, crossover subgenres, etc) and so on. The heart of the book, however, will be the Science Fiction Film Canon: The 50 classic Science Fiction films. In my own brain, I see this list as the list of the most significant science fiction films, as opposed to the “best” or the most financially successful. This gives me latitude to, say, include films that are influential on science fiction filmmakers, but not necessarily the audience (or, vice versa, as the case may be).<\/p>\n

He’s done some initial vetting of the list, but is open to suggestions and refinements. A lengthy and interesting set of comments ensues, worth reading even if you don’t have anything to contribute. (Everything I could think of was already listed by one or more, usually more, people.)<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author John Scalzi is soliciting from folks their votes for the Fifty Most Significant SF Films. As some of you know, I’m currently writing The Rough Guide to Science Fiction…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8538,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/the_canon_of_sf.html","url_meta":{"origin":6456,"position":0},"title":"The Canon of SF Films","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Oct-05 1:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"John Scalzi, who's just publishing the Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, puts out the canon of most significant SF films: All of this is designed to be both interesting and...","rel":"","context":"In "DC Media (DCEU, DCU)"","block_context":{"text":"DC Media (DCEU, DCU)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/dc-cinematic-univese"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/yet-another-sf-should-read-book-list.html","url_meta":{"origin":6456,"position":1},"title":"Yet another SF should-read book list","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jul-12 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've actually read three\u00a0of these (Dune, 1984, Foundation), but have never pretended to read the others (I do have a copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that I keep meaning to get to). 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