December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
...over three days with over 300 hours of science and science fiction-themed programmes. This year the event featured... to the Escape Velocity programmes. As the Museum of Science Fiction’s visitor community continues to grow with special events and ...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... astronauts The notion of the discovery of remains of extraterrestrial civilisations on other planets has inspired the plots of many science fiction films since the middle of the 20th century, even before the beginning of space exploration The origin...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...is advice. Original poster artwork for the seminal science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Three other ..., broadcasting and public affairs. He is a published fiction and non-fiction author and a regular contributor and political commentator on ...
20 May 2022
Science Fiction
... “a detailed history of the genre nor a comprehensive listing of its most important works” but to focus on “what science fiction can do” and how it can be used “for grasping daily life in industrialized, technological societies”. Clearly, this is not...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...Gouache + digital). From ‘Futures: 50 Years in Space’ by David A Hardy & Patrick Moore, 2004 Throughout the 1950s, science fiction and other illustrators who had never even looked through a telescope produced variations of Bonestell’s Moon (a warning...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... we can today One of the earliest attempts to suggest practical means to reach the stars was by noted science fiction author and science writer Arthur C Clarke in his 1951 book, The Exploration of Space, in which he proposed using nuclear propulsion...
