Word: nebula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dune was written in 1965, won the Hugo and Nebula awards as best science fiction novel of the year, and rapidly became an underground cult classic. In 1969, a sequel appeared, Dune Messiah, the further adventures of Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib, and Emperor of the Fremen. Now Herbert has presented us with another, final tale of Arrakis, the Dune planet--a sort of a sequel to a sequel. Like most sequels, Children of Dune recalls the worst things about the first two books...
...first film to show at the new Galeria cinema, is based on Harlan Ellison's Nebula award-winning novella of the same name. The L.Q. Jones film version fails from the start; it's bad science fiction as well as bad cinematography. Ellison's story does not lend itself to the camera as there are immediate and plaguing flaws in adaptation. A Boy And His Dog is set in 2024, in an America ravaged and torn by the nuclear warheads of the Third World War. The survivors, either alone (solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence...
...high school courses being offered that figure is even higher. As science fiction has lost its "subliterary" categorization recognition has followed for several science fiction novelists: the masterful Robert Heinlein for Stranger in a Strange Land Frank Herbert and Dune, published in 1965, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards: Isaac Asimov's brilliant, futuristic Foundation trilogy: and Ray Bradbury and Arthu C. Clarke for Fahrenheit 451 and Childhood's End, respectively. On television, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits have won tremendous followings and the box office success of 2001: A Space Odyssey is representative...
Billed as "science adventures for curious grownups," Nova so far has looked to the skies to describe the distant Crab nebula and explain the pulsar, a kind of astronomical time clock that lies within it. The program has gone underseas for a scientific examination of dolphins and whales, resisting the temptation to Flipperize its subjects. It has even presented a fascinating inside look at the difficulties that a team of science-film makers encountered in making a nature film. Other shows will explain experiments with Washoe, a chimpanzee who has been taught to speak in sign language, and tackle...
...expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind of the curious grownup by raising a new question for every one that they answer...