Showing posts with label space travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space travel. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta: The Swingin’ 60s, Volume 6 — “Spaced Out Magic Carpet Rides.” (FREE eBook!)




Sci-Fi Film Fiesta: 
The Swingin’ 60s,
 Volume 6 —
“Spaced Out Magic Carpet Rides.”


Blast off into the stranger reaches of the 1960s with my FREE eBook,
Sci-Fi Film Fiesta: The Swingin’ 60s, Volume 6 — “Spaced Out Magic Carpet Rides.”

This latest volume journeys through seven memorable science-fiction films: 12 to the Moon (1960); Ikarie XB1 (1963); Fantastic Voyage (1966); Queen of Blood (1966); Marooned (1969); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) and Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969).

These are voyages into the unknown—toward the Moon, distant stars, the hidden interior of the human body, alien worlds, the cold immensities of space, and realities that lie beyond ordinary perception. Yet the greatest unknown in these films is often the human being at the center of the
journey.

Again and again, these stories place men and women in situations where survival hangs by a thread. They face isolation, terror, sacrifice, and forces far beyond their control. But as they push outward toward unexplored frontiers, they are also driven inward—forced to confront fear, ambition, frailty, obsession, and the darker corners of their own nature.

“Spaced Out Magic Carpet Rides” explores how the science-fiction cinema of the 1960s turned adventure into something richer: a voyage not only across strange new worlds, but toward that undiscovered country within.


If you enjoy classic sci-fi, cosmic mystery, retro-futurist imagination, and the dream-haunted spirit of the Swingin’ Sixties, this FREE volume is ready for launch.......

(Note: All images within the body text of each film entry have been generated by Chatgpt based on parameters provided by the author)











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Wednesday, 30 April 2025

The Doomsday Machine (1972)



A poorly made cheap sci-fi throwback or a sci-fi crappy cult classic?You be the  judge!


Directed by Herbert J. Leder, Harry Hope, Lee SholemWritten by Stuart J. Byrne
Produced by Harry Hope
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Distributed by Cine-Find
Running time: 83 minutes


Cast


Bobby Van as Danny
Ruta Lee as Dr. Marion Turner
Mala Powers as Maj. Georgianna Bronski
James Craig as Dr. Haines
Grant Williams as Maj. Kurt Mason
Henry Wilcoxon as Dr. Christopher Perry
Essie Lin Chia as Girl Spy
Casey Kasem as Mission Control Officer
Lorri Scott as Lt. Katie Carlson
Denny Miller as Col. Don Price
Mike Farrell as 1st Reporter





Trailer


A Red Chinese "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth!
A plan to use the Doomsday machine within a matter of days
A manned U.S. space mission to Venus, ‘Project Astra’ taken over by the military!
Nearly half of Astra’s all-male crew replaced by women!But Why?
The Earth completely destroyed in a global cataclysm!
Is the human race doomed to extinction?
What of the crew of the Astra as they journey to Venus?


Read on for more.....

Friday, 28 October 2022

OTHER WORLDS - NEW EBOOK!


Sci-Fi Film Fiesta
VOLUME 3:
“OTHER WORLDS”

By Chris Christopoulos


This volume of the “Sci-Fi Film Fiesta” series: VOLUME 3: "OTHER WORLDS" features
 these classic sci-fi gems from the 1950s; 
  • Destination Moon
  • Rocketship X-M
  • Flight to Mars
  • Cat Women of the Moon
  • Forbidden Planet
  • The Angry Red Planet
Each film presents an imaginative scenario involving humanity’s exploration of alien worlds.

Volume 3 "Other Worlds" is the third eBook in the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta series and is free for you to download.

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Keep an eye out for Volume 4, "Journeys Within."

Monday, 18 October 2021

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

An important and innovative sci-fi classic film but one that is often overrated

Trailer

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Produced by Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Edited by Ray Lovejoy
Production company: Stanley Kubrick Productions
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time: 142 minutes
Budget: $10.5–12 million
Box office: $146 million


Cast


Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman
Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester as Dr. Heywood Floyd
Daniel Richter as Moonwatcher, the chief man-ape
Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack as Elena
Robert Beatty as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan as Dr. Roy Michaels[3]
Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL 9000
Frank Miller as mission controller
Edward Bishop as Aries 1B lunar shuttle captain
Edwina Carroll as lunar shuttle stewardess
Penny Brahms as stewardess
Heather Downham as stewardess
Alan Gifford as Poole's father
Ann Gillis as Poole's mother
Maggie d'Abo as stewardess (Space Station 5 elevator)
Chela Matthison as Mrs. Turner, Space Station 5 reception
Judy Keirn as voiceprint identification woman (Space Station 5)
Vivian Kubrick as Floyd's daughter, "Squirt"
Kenneth Kendall as BBC announcer



Opening sequence

The film opens with pitch blackness – a complete absence of light and matter as if at the moment before the universe came into being. On this science and religion can agree: in the beginning there was darkness until...until….until, and that is what the sustained musical note sets us up for as it gradually rises to a crescendo of sound.

Our expectation is then met with the view of our planet suspended in the inky void of space with the sun seeming to emerge from behind and above it. Celestial gases and gravity have long worked their magic gradually coalescing to form light and life-giving stars and planets and solar systems, so many of which come together to form constellations.

By some miracle, this single planetary jewel (perhaps one might be forgiven thinking - the only one in the universe) has been blessed with the addition of a single seemingly unique and miraculous element – LIFE!


Read on for more