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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Destination Hell How Alfred Bester's | |
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| The Stars My Destination: Took a Jaunt to Hollywood | |
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| A Difficult Childhood | |
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| The Unmanifested Destiny for Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End | |
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| Where No One Has Gone Before Philip Kaufman's | |
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| Star Trek: Planet of the Titansand Other | |
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| Star Trek: Voyages Never Taken | |
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| Close, But No Cigar-Shaped Object How the Evil Aliens of Steven Spielberg's | |
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| Night Skies: Were Replaced By a Very Different Extra-Terrestrial | |
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| The Tourist Trap How | |
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| The Tourist: Got Lost in 'Development Hell' | |
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| Profits Of Dune Unrealised Visions of Frank Herbert's Seminal Science Fiction Fable | |
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| Twin Freaks Sci-Fi From Another Place: David Lynch's | |
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| Ronnie Rocket and One Saliva Bubble | |
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| Alienated In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream | |
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| In Hollywood, They Can Hear You - They Just Don't Take Any Notice | |
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| Lights, Camera, No "Action!" Even the Self-Styled "King of the World" Couldn't Untangle | |
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| Spider-Man's Web | |
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| This Is Legend HowI Am Legend | |
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| Rose From the Dead | |
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| Who Watches The Watchmen? How the Greatest Graphic Novel of Them All Almost Confounded Hollywood | |
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| Fantastic Journey Why Getting | |
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| The Fantastic Fourto the Big Screen Proved a Real Stretch for Hollywood | |
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| The Silver Screen Silver Surfer | |
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| Goes to Tinsel Town | |
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| The Death Of Superman Lives Why It Took Twenty Years, Nine Writers, Four Directors and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Make | |
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| Superman Return | |
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| The Six Billion Dollar Movie | |
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| The Bionic Man Almost Gets a Big Screen Makeover | |
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| Don't Panic Twenty-Five Years of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Show of | |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | |
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| Thunderbird's Aren't Go Why the Live Action | |
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| Thunderbirds | |
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| Movie Came With Strings Attached | |
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| Lost In Space How Dead Star | |
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| Disappeared Into a Black Hole, Only to Re-Emerge as Supernova | |
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| Island Of Lost Souls | |
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| The Strange and Terrible Story Behind Richard Stanley's | |
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| The Island of Dr Moreau | |
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| No Limits How a Movie Version of the Classic Sci-Fi Show | |
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| The Outer Limits Proved Beyond the Limits of MGM | |
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| Get Carter! John Carter of Mars' Century-Long Journey to the Big Screen | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Acknowledgements and Index of Quotations | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index of Names and Film Titles | |