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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 | |