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  A one-time film critic for Time Out magazine and presenter of the BBC World Service’s Soundtrack, DAVID PIRIE was also a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin. His first book about the cinema was A Heritage of Horror (1973), a groundbreaking study of the British fantasy genre. In 1980 his first novel, Mystery Story, was published. His impressive screenwriting credits include Rainy Day Women (BBC 1984), Never Come Back (BBC 1990), Ashenden (BBC 1991), Natural Lies (BBC 1992), Black Easter (BBC 1995), The Woman in White (BBC, 1997), The Wyvern Mystery (BBC 2000) and his acclaimed series, Murder Rooms (BBC 2000), which offered a rare glimpse into the genesis of Sherlock Holmes through an imaginative weaving of the early years of Arthur Conan Doyle as a student at Edinburgh University and his relationship with forensic science pioneer Dr Joseph Bell.

  CHRISTOPHER PRIEST was born in Cheshire. He began selling short stories soon after leaving school and published his first novel, Indoctrinaire, in 1970. Since then he has published many more, including The Affirmation (1981), The Prestige (1995) and The Separation (2002). His books have been translated into every major European language and published around the world. He is currently working on a new novel provisionally entitled The Islands. A winner of many awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the World Fantasy Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Priest has seen his books honoured in Australia, the USA, France, Germany, Italy and the UK. In 2006 a film of The Prestige was released, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale. Priest is married to the writer Leigh Kennedy. They live with their twin children Elizabeth and Simon in Hastings.

  MIKE RESNICK was born in 1942. He sold his first article in 1957, his first short story in 1959 and his first book in 1962. 81 SF books into his career, Mike still considers himself a fan and frequently contributes articles to fanzines. From 1964-76 he sold more than 200 novels, 300 short stories and 2000 articles, almost all of them under pseudonyms, most of them in the ‘adult’ field. His first novel in his ‘second’ career was The Soul Eater, which was followed by Birthright: The Book of Man, Walpurgis III, the four-book Tales of the Velvet Comet series, and Adventures, all from Signet. His ‘breakthrough’ novel was the international bestseller Santiago, published by Tor in 1986. Tor has since published Stalking the Unicorn, The Dark Lady, Ivory, Purgatory, Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?, A Hunger in the Soul, The Outpost and many others. Astonishingly prolific, Mike has also had novels published by Ace, Questar, Bantam, del Ray and a variety of others. Beginning with Shaggy B.E.M. Stories in 1988, Mike is also the editor of over 35 anthologies. He has always supported the ‘specialty press’, and has had numerous books and collections out in limited editions from the likes of Phantasia Press, Axolotl Press, Pulphouse Publishing, Farthest Star, and others. He has won an incredible number of awards for his fiction, including five Hugos and a Nebula. Indeed, Locus magazine reports that Mike is the leading award winner for short fiction among all science fiction writers, ever.

  ALASTAIR REYNOLDS is a science fiction writer based in Wales. He is the author of nine novels and many short stories. He spent the twelve years leading up to 2004 as a scientist within the European Space Agency, of which about half that time was spent working on S-Cam, the world’s most advanced optical camera. His first published novel was Revelation Space (2000), which was shortlisted for the BSFA and Arthur C Clarke awards. His second novel, Chasm City, won the BSFA award in 2002. Two independent short story collections, Zima Blue (US) and Galactic North (UK) appeared at the end of 2006. His latest novel, Terminal World, is a far future, steampunk-influenced planetary romance about the adventures of an exiled pathologist, and a city in need of medicine. Coming in 2011 and beyond will be the 11K sequence, a trilogy of books dealing with the expansion of the human species (beginning with an African-dominated 22nd century) into the solar system and beyond, over the next 11,000 years…

  TONY RICHARDS is author of the novels The Harvest Bride, Night Feast, Night of Demons and Dark Rain, the novellas Postcards From Terri and Yuppieville, and the collections Going Back, No-Man and Other Tales, Shadows and Other Tales and Passport to Purgatory.

  CHRIS ROBERSON’s writings include the novels Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, Three Unbroken, and Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II, and the comic book series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love and I, Zombie. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Interzone, Postscripts and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks and Forbidden Planets. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specialising in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol. 1. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times (once each for writing and editing, and twice for publishing), twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History (winning the Short Form in 2004 with his story O One and the Long Form in 2008 with his novel The Dragon’s Nine Sons). Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas with their daughter Georgia.

  ADAM ROBERTS is Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Among his many published novels and novellas are Salt, On, Stone, Jupiter Magnified, Polystom, The Snow, Gradisil, Land of the Headless, Splinter, Swiftly, Yellow Blue Tibia and New Model Army. Under an assortment of alter-egos, Adam is also the author of various parodies, pastiches and lampoons. His non-fiction work includes The Palgrave History of Science Fiction and Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom.

  Described as a ‘leading light of the splatterpunk movement,’ DAVID J. SCHOW’s short stories are collected in Seeing Red, Lost Angels, Black Leather Required, Crypt Orchids, Eye, Zombie Jam and Havoc Swims Jaded. In addition to the novels The Kill Riff, The Shaft, Rock Breaks Scissors Cut, Bullets of Rain, Gun Work and Internecine, he is the author of The Outer Limits Companion, editor of Silver Scream, and ringmaster of The Art of Drew Struzan. He has written screenplays for the movies The Crow, Critters 3 & 4, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and The Hills Run Red, and teleplays for the TV series The Hunger, The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science, Freddy’s Nightmares and Masters of Horror. He lives in the Hollywood Hills in a house called Ravenseye.

  ROBERT SHEARMAN is an internationally-acclaimed playwright, scriptwriter and short story writer. In the theatre he has worked extensively with Alan Ayckbourn, had a play produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and has received several international awards for his work, including the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award for Fool To Yourself, the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for Easy Laughter, the World Drama Trust Award for Coupling and the Guinness Award for Theatre Ingenuity for Binary Dreamers. He has also written many plays for BBC Radio 4, and several highly-acclaimed Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions. It was as a result of one of these dramas, Jubilee, that Rob was asked to write the episode Dalek for the hugely successful re-launch series of Doctor Who in 2005. In 2007 Rob turned to prose-writing, his first collection of short stories, Tiny Deaths, going on to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. It was also short-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and made the long-list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. His second collection, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, was published in 2009, and is currently short-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize (making Rob the first writer to be nominated twice for this award) and the Shirley Jackson Award, and is long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the British Fantasy Award. Forthcoming work includes a third collection of stories, Everyone’s Just So So Special, and a collection of his selected stage plays, tentatively titled Caustic Comedies.

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sp; LUCIUS SHEPARD’s novels include Green Eyes, Life During Wartime, Kalimantan, Aztechs, Floater, Viator and Softspoken. Many of his hundreds of published short stories have been collected in The Jaguar Hunter, Two Trains Running, Trujillo and Other Stories, Dagger Key and Other Stories, Skull City and Other Lost Stories, and others. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

  JOHN SKIPP is a New York Times bestselling author, editor, and horror legend, whose nineteen books have sold millions of copies worldwide. His work with Craig Spector in the 80’s (The Light at the End, The Bridge, The Scream) helped define the playful hardcore subversiveness of the splatterpunk era; and his anthologies (from 1989’s Book of the Dead to 2009’s Zombies: Encounters With the Hungry Dead) laid the foundation for modern zombie fiction. Skipp now specializes in crazed 21st century apocalyptic fiction with Cody Goodfellow (Jake’s Wake, Spore, The Day Before). Other books include Conscience, Stupography, The Long Last Call, Opposite Sex (as Gina McQueen), and The Emerald Burrito of Oz (with Marc Levinthal).

  BRIAN STABLEFORD is the author of over fifty novels, twenty short story collections and over a dozen works of non-fiction. His novels include the Daedalus Mission, Asgard and Emortality series, as well as dozens of stand-alone titles, including The Empire of Fear, Year Zero, Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations and Prelude to Eternity. His collections include Complications and Other Stories, The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions and Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales. He is also the translator of numerous classic works of French scientific romance, including all the relevant works of J. H. Rosny the elder and Maurice Renard.

  JEFF STRAND’s novels include Pressure, Benjamin’s Parasite, Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), and The Sinister Mr. Corpse. He lives in Tampa, Florida. He was technically too young to get into RoboCop without a legal guardian, but the guy at the ticket booth let him through because the movie was filled with violence and not sex. You can visit his Gleefully Macabre website at www.JeffStrand.com.

  Some of STEVE RASNIC TEM‘s 300 plus short stories have recently appeared in Asimov’s, Black Static, Crimewave and Ellen Datlow’s Poe. A collection of his short collaborations with wife Melanie Tem, In Concert, was recently published by Centipede Press. He is a past winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the IHG, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award.

  STEVEN UTLEY broke into print at a tender age, while living in the Ryukyu Islands, with a poem about Hannibal (the Carthaginian general, not Samuel L. Clemens’ home town). He eventually followed through with three critically-acclaimed story collections, Ghost Seas (1997), The Beasts of Love (2005) and Where or When (2006), two volumes of verse, This Impatient Ape (1998) and Career Moves of the Gods (2000), and the perennially soon-to-be-finished Silurian Tales, establishing himself, or so The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction maintains, as ‘a figure of edgy salience in the field’. Steven, however, prefers to think of himself as ‘an internationally unknown author.’

  STEPHEN VOLK is the creator/writer of ITV1’s multi award-winning paranormal drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, some would say legendary, BBC TV ‘Halloween hoax’, Ghostwatch, which spooked the nation, hit the headlines, and caused questions to be raised in Parliament. An established screenwriter in Britain and the USA, his credits include Ken Russell’s Gothic, a trippy retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story starring Gabriel Byrne and Natasha Richardson, The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin, Superstition and Octane. Other TV work includes stand-alone scripts for Shockers and Ghosts. He won a BAFTA for his short film script The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. His first collection of short stories, Dark Corners, was published by Gray Friar Press in 2006, from which his story 31/10 (a putative sequel to Ghostwatch) was nominated for both a British Fantasy Award and a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award, and was reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. More recently, he has been nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for his novella Vardoger. He is also a regular contributing editor to Black Static, the horror and dark fantasy fiction magazine. He lives in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire with his wife, the sculptor Patricia Volk.

  IAN WHATES lives in Cambridgeshire with his partner, Helen, and their pets – notably Honey, a manic cocker spaniel. He has had more than 40 short stories published in recent years, two of which have been shortlisted for BSFA Awards and many of which are collected in The Gift of Joy (2009). He currently has two ongoing novel sequences, one urban fantasy with steampunk overtones (City of Dreams and Nightmare, Angry Robot 2010), the other space opera (The Noise Within, Solaris 2010). In his spare time he runs multiple award-winning independent publisher NewCon Press, which he founded by accident in 2006.

  CINEMA FUTURA

  Copyright © The Individual Contributors 2010 & 2011

  Introduction

  Copyright © Mark Morris 2010 & 2011

  The rights of the individual contributors to be identified as Authors of this Work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Originally published in printed book form by PS Publishing Ltd. in September 2010. This electronic version published in July 2011 by PS by arrangement with the authors. All rights reserved by the authors.

  FIRST EBOOK EDITION

  ISBN 978-1-848631-69-4

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Contents

  CINEMA FUTURA

  INTRODUCTION

  METROPOLIS

  FRAU IM MOND

  THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT

  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

  INVADERS FROM MARS

  THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN

  QUATERMASS 2

  I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE

  THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD

  THE WASP WOMAN

  VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED

  THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

  LA JETÉE

  ALPHAVILLE

  DR WHO AND THE DALEKS

  2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

  PLANET OF THE APES

  THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  SILENT RUNNING

  SOLARIS

  SLEEPER

  WESTWORLD

  LOGAN’S RUN

  THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

  STAR WARS

  QUINTET

  [STALKER]

  MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

  THE TIME BANDITS

  BLADE RUNNER

  2010

  THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

  REPO MAN

  THE TERMINATOR

  BRAZIL

  THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO

  ALIENS

  THE FLY

  ROBOCOP

  DELICATESSEN

  TWELVE MONKEYS

  INDEPENDENCE DAY

  GATTACA

  PI

  THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT

  THE MATRIX

  DONNIE DARKO

  LORD OF THE RINGS

  THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA

  LILO AND STITCH

  MINORITY REPORT

  CODE 46

  SERENITY

  V FOR VENDETTA

  CHILDREN OF MEN

  THE FOUNTAIN

  THE MIST

  STAR TREK

  AVATAR

  CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

  CINEMA FUTURA

  Copyright © The Individual Contributors 2010 & 2011 Introduction Copyright © Mark Morris 2010 & 2011 The rights of the individual contributors to be identified as Authors of this Work h
ave been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Originally published in printed book form by PS Publishing Ltd. in September 2010. This electronic version published in July 2011 by PS by arrangement with the authors. All rights reserved by the authors. FIRST EBOOK EDITION ISBN 978-1-848631-69-4 This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. PS Publishing Ltd Grosvenor House 1 New Road Hornsea / HU18 1PG East Yorkshire / England [email protected] www.pspublishing.co.uk