Science Fiction has proved to big, big office through the years with movies such as Star Wars and TV shows such as Dr Who bringing the genre to mainstream audiences. The Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction is as comprehensive a tour as you could want into the realms of the fantastic. Covering movies, TV and radio just about every futuristic adventure to ever hit the screens is covered her with entries on over 1,500 movies, 300 TV shows and eight decades worth of SF radio shows. There's plenty of information on actors, directors, writers and other creative types plus run downs of the top 100 people in SF, a guide to SF movie Web sites plenty of lovely illustrations and a few trivia and quizzes to test your knowledge. The entries are brisk and pacey, giving balanced opinion and criticism. Of course, it's all subjective and you will undoubtedly find yourself disagreeing with many of the comments, but it's all nicely laid out and comes at a good-value price... doing exactly what it says on the tin. --Jonathan Weir |
