Some good and even brilliant SF-and-Fantasy-tinged operas did get made in the 20th century, somewhat off the radar.

...a film that is both saturated with the tropes and imagery of science fiction and fundamentally hostile to scientific progress and all its effects. In this respect, of course, it is precisely faithful to the spirit of the 1950s science fiction films that it so respectfully references.

The stories in his new collection, The Bachelor Machine, pass the litmus tests of both the SF and erotica genres. Take out the tech and there's no story; take out the sex and there's no story.

It Was a Dark and Silly Night... is admirably enchanting and fun. The concept this time around is to fashion a story around the title...

Like Mark Twain, Jack Vance's work richly rewards rereading every decade or so. The swift action is still there, but what most impresses is the cleverness of the setup, the way in which Vance has crafted ever-widening circles of mirror-imaged antagonists, like a yin-yang symbol which turns out to be the eye of larger yin-yang symbol, which, in turn, is the eye of a still larger one.

The stories are full of humor and tragedy, of cynicism and romanticism, of secret identities, of wisdom and folly, of blood, of nobility...

Dozens of works by Le Guin, Gaiman, Spinrad, Moorcock and others are little known -- because they exist only on often obscure musical recordings.

The writing styles on display are generally to die for — the kind of prose readers return to again and again. Several of these interstitial stories stayed with me long after I had finished reading them.

Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest fantasy director who ever lived. Six of his eight full-length feature films are available in the U.S. on DVD.

The Wachowski brothers understand the look and feel of Science Fiction, but not the deep commitment to scientific plausibility that gives SF so much of its unique resonance...

These films just keep looking better and better. But are they good films? Or just special-effects spectacles with little attention to storytelling?

The most entertaining adventure film I've seen in many years. ... What it brings most to mind is Tim Powers' 1987 novel, On Stranger Tides...

Danny Boyle takes a video camera and makes a film ten times better, at least, with a tenth the money.

This aura of grim determination is characteristic of the subgenre of science fiction that the Terminator films represent: survivalist fiction...

Transmetropolitan is among the most important, pertinent, and entertaining SF of the last decade.

Will Monstrocity's groundedness in contemporary culture eventually make it as wince-worthy as much mid 20th-century SF? Time will tell, but I doubt it. It's much too savvy, much too aware of what it's doing and what it's not doing.

Frazetta comes across as rugged and matey, the lion in winter.

It gets few notices in the religious press. Yet it is a spiritual story of a quest for the true world hidden behind what we think of as the real one - and, of course, it’s science fiction.

What makes me glad it's doing boffo box office is its willingness to ask real questions.

It is the kind of book that hints at things hidden, secreted away, beneath.