SF Topics :: Alternate Worlds & RealitiesWhat if? These two words are the key building blocks of SF. Science fiction starts with a premise in the physical world and changes it to imagine other possibilities, other universes, other physical laws. What if history had turned out another way? What if society transitioned from a physical to a virtual world? What if our historical past were a fiction? Here is some featured reading and viewing from the Museum exhibits:
Books
| Title |
Author |
Year |
| Odd John |
Olaf Stapledon |
1935 |
| The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
1962 |
| Limbo |
Bernard Wolfe |
1952 |
| Nightfall and Other Short Stories |
Isaac Asimov |
1969 |
| To Your Scattered Bodies Go |
Philip Jose Farmer |
1971 |
| Helliconia Spring |
Brian W. Aldiss |
1982 |
| City of Truth |
James Morrow |
1992 |
| Vanishing Acts |
Ed. Ellen Datlow |
2000 |
| Redshift Rendezvous |
John E. Stith |
2001 |
| Kiln People |
David Brin |
2002 |
| The Mount |
Carol Emshwiller |
2002 |
| A Year in Linear City |
Paul di Filippo |
2002 |
| The Years of Rice and Salt |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
2002 |
Media
| Title |
Director/Producer |
Year |
| E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial |
Dir. Steven Spielberg |
1982 |
| Dark City |
Dir. Alex Proyas |
1998 |
| Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade |
Dir. Hiroyuki Okiura |
1998 |
| The Matrix, 1-3 |
Dir. Andy & Larry Wachowski |
1999- 2003 |
| RahXephon |
Dir. Yutaka Izubuchi |
2002 |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Dir. Michel Gondry |
2004 |
