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...moving to Vancouver at 18 to work in special effects) and who knew from boyhood that he wanted to be a filmmaker. "On one side of my mind you have this place with a crazy racial background, and on the other side of my brain you have this science-fiction geek," he says. "And then one day the two just mixed, and I decided I wanted to do science fiction in South Africa." (See the best 1950s sci-fi movies...
...rough draft for District 9, the short film Alive in Joburg, Blomkamp didn't foreground the political elements. But while writing the feature script with Terri Tatchell, he became aware "that all these very serious topics about racism and xenophobia and segregation would start to shine through the science-fiction-esque veneer," he says. "I had to be very careful that I didn't get too close to these serious topics with a film that's mostly a summer thrill ride." He told himself, "It's your first film. Use it as satire. Chill...
...Audubon Society to protect Florida's plume birds, Schulberg decided he was done with Hollywood. He wrote several volumes of memoirs and adapted Sammy, Waterfront and his Fitzgerald novel, The Disenchanted, into Broadway shows. By the 1970s he had retired to Westhampton, L.I., as the grizzled grandee of American fiction, page and screen...
...future demand for industrial robots has dropped as Japanese production takes a nosedive. Still, this lull is unlikely to stop Japanese scientists and researchers, who will continue to develop industrial and service robots while rolling out an occasional whizzy invention or two, all in the hopes of turning science fiction fantasies - one day - into a reality...
...TIME's science fiction covers...