mig Cd aS. a “@) ~ \GAIVER ot Edition CNM aU Digitalhad dAdaAdadadaddaddAdddsaddadaaa.FROM THE MAKERS OF SFX+ SH ULTIMATE SGFIERS SCIENCE FICTION ISA GENRE TH ‘he mor ehought proveking and awe inspiring tories across the ‘writen page, ivr sere and television set. ‘Whether ls the hum of Luke Slywalerlightsaber, the cthervorldlybuza ofthe Enterprises transporter or something ese entirely weal ave sc stor from ou past that lca warm rnosal low in our hearts In thie special dion rom the makers {SAX and Retr Gamer, joins swe hop int oa rsty TARDIS ‘nd rave back in time to celebrate the science ftom of ysteryea. ‘We wljourey nto our past vision ofthe future to deliver you a collection of must-see stories Travel to. Galany Far Far Away and relive the highs ofthe Empire Strikes Bc nd strange Twilight Zone. Experience the Gothic fees of the feare with Mary Shells Frankenstein, And prepare for ‘videogame takaove as she Space Invaders besa beeping and ‘Hooping towards planet earth, Allthis and much more await you on your journey So wit are you wating fr? Set phaser to stun, nse your Sone Screwdriver fscharged and prepare for ahypecspace jump int the past!4 L FUTURE 4 rULTIMATE SCIFI RETRO COLLECTION SFX + SikMOVIES@, 08 ESSENTIAL RETRO SCI-FI FILMS \ THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 18 ALIEN 22 STAR TREK: ‘THE MOTION PICTURE, 26 STAR WAI ‘HE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 36 BLADE RUNNER QQET THE EXTRA TERRESTRIALTV SHOWSN ESSENTIAL RETRO SCI-FI TV SERIES THE TWILIGHT ZONE ‘THUNDERBIRDS DOCTOR WHO ‘THE PRISONER STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION al A BOOKS & COMICS ESSENTIAL RETRO SCI-FIREADING MATERIAL FRANKENSTEIN ARTHUR C CLARK DAN DARE 2000AD GAMING & 12 ESSENTIAL RETRO SCI-FI VIDEOGAMES 18 SPACE INVADERS 16 WARHAMMER 40,000 -— You really did feel like you could talk with that alien wae sc meme eenUa ee aa THERE ARE GREAT SCI-FI FILMS AND THEN THERE ARE GENRE-DEFINING SCI-FI FILMS. THESE ARE THE MOVIES EVERY SERIOUS SF CONNOISSEUR MUST SEE bi Pre nese ae ee ee ee / Eee eee tenn see aera enn nr rnerens Reece seen mw | oon be / : ‘ =.Cr \ . Laer TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1981 ‘The Terminator or Terminator 281 ticky deeding which one most deserves place on this lise Saitou disagree with our chon consider it ‘joint entry forth Some ans prefer the grungy feclofthe orignal with Ama Schwarzeneguer as avillinous eyborg fom the future teaveling back in time tol the mothe ofthe man who wllbecome a ebelius paini-the side for oar ‘ebot overlords But James Cameron's bigs, Irasher asic sequal ismore tan just more of the same’ ivexpands onthe original concep so ‘many clever, audience pleasing ways Not least of which the ls new bad uy Hivingturned Aries #00 Terminator int the eto this time, hi nemesis snow the unforgetable 1000 (payed by Robert Pati, fperfectblend of FX and character to produce ¢ erally mercurial shape shifting asain “his alongwith the fins doomy apocalyptic propbecies the new kick ase Sarah Connor (nda Hamaton), the ominous threat of the Slynet network and aolr-casting conveyor bee of pulse pounding action senes elevate the film tonear-mythi stats within so cre ut-“lbe back” sella better etchphase than, “Hasta a vista baby” BACK TO THE FUTURE my ceria ene ee elt reno ROBOCOP 1987 Swear, politely incoree and very: very blondy RoboCop sa fl thal 0 easy todas au crass and exploitative. But there's way more to dretor Paul erhoewen's potty-mouthed movie han ‘he lorication of gore. “Though, admittedly there an afl Jovofiscers. And undeniably the image that lives on inmost people minds lang aftersecing the movie fsa henchman with his faechanging of after an angument witha vat of acd rater dan, ay one of he fin’ clever faux commercials (Nukem! Another quality home game {rom Ber Brothers) But there isa really engaging human story t RoboCop to, Never before oF since hus fis vied evoked the trauma of having the majority of your body replaced with machinery even the remake with i improved speci PX ‘overplayed can inthis espece and fended uplookingudierous But you gerninely fel for Peter Welles “Murphy ~acop who's shott pieces and rebuilt by scents as hestrugles retain hishumanty "Then ther’ the awesome ED-209, 8 stop-motion animate robo with massive ‘anon; the strc newscasts that, ‘leu big busines the wonderfully slimy corporate bigwigs to his and boo fndone of the best iluins deaths in linen history (You ir ‘Time travel hasbeen a ich source for comedy sci, But while Bill andTed took time parsdoxes tohidlerousextremes and Hoe Tub Time Machine went down the gross-o rote, Bak 0 the Fuure remains the pinacle of cinematic temporal ijn “The ull complexity of ts time-travel shenanigans unwraps throughout the ilo, bat fhe ovo sequels while fury are nea lawless in the execution ors consent fanny ~ asthe Sse, eich nigh a ngh-on perce combination of scifi and ges Michael J Foxe prfetycastas Marty MeFly, venithe was the second choice after Eni Stole ‘as fired from the oe (sd for him, lucky for us ‘lewor). Mare aves back 1955 ina DeLorean sports car pimped by fiend neighbourhood ma professor Dr Emmett Brown (Chestoper oy). There he has to convince his teenage mum and dd ofilin love, which alnteary when bis dad was grade A seckatthedine Teaser oy lan and mesn with nota ‘wasted moment or line Action-packed, Inlorions anda great beginners ide time paradoxes Even ifthe photo wich Marty's family fang aay makes bsotely nological sense atlPLANET OF THE APES 1968 Planet ofthe Apes could have been very sly indeed. Apes on horashack using mans #8 slaves? sounds ike the recipe for cheesy ‘B-movie. And iteould have been an utr disaster ifthe ape make-up wasn convincing ‘Thankfully, the ape masks were just convincing they were phenomena forthe cine, and ail look impressive to this day. They were & telumph for make-up artist John Chambers the ‘man who also eeated the pointed ear fo Star Tels Mr Spock and who was ivaled ina CIA ‘operation chat formed the basis ofthe il Argo CGavrbich Chambers was played by Joh Gocman), Fr the lm, he helmed a team that ‘rated large numbers ofchimpanzee gorilla and orangutan masks, mabhing hima honorary Academy award for outstanding rake up achievement Bu the sees of the film wasnt doen tots impressive mass and costumes alone Even on itselease cries were heaping praise on the lm Peter rereed since. Why? eel. one thingie ute commitment to makings own central cancel work on-screen, Loosely sed on the novel La Plnde dex Sings by Pierre Boul its the story of three astronauts ath use (me ei oo ‘who crash land onan unknown planet where spesrule and humane aeslaves. ‘An allegorical tle wings to make social commentary, Pane ofthe Apes treats the ‘cutlass acenaro with deadly sorousnes (Casting Chariton Heston the lead ws ak ‘afementof intent this was nota B-movie, And the brat grin ton ofthe movie ps the meticulous way ape society idee, made the ‘lm an instant “The jaw-dropping nal et helped place Planet othe Apes on the cinematic ap oo. No sire ee but what fa ie: "You lew t ‘op! A damn you! God damn you all the THE MATRIX 1999 ‘The strc pled a double wharamy to ensure ingplace in the si cinemati hall of fame. On fhe one hand, ey the first major movie to wow tudlences with he concept of «vital rity ‘work. Sure, fms like Jonny Mnemonic (1995) nd Lawnmower Man (1993) had dated with fhe concept of metaverse, but The Matrix was ‘he st sous fm to propery deve ieo the ‘existential implications of humans vinglong term ithin avira reality That was mindblorng enough ait was But hen the fil alo gave us bullet ine ard ‘hanged the lok of sereen sis aeton forever. ull time was the revolutionary new shooting process which used circles of eamenss aperinimages in rapid succesionoreeze’ ‘Sor in time, ereating 3D’ sho hat could be ‘wed from various angles. Iecrested striking inages the like of which audiences had never scen befor and which were smesiatls Imitate by subsoquent genre movies Tn fee, the onginal alle time tech was superseded bya cheaper, fer cheat (hich even the Aatre sequels used), but the (CG version never had the same authente fea. (reeted one ass However, the influence ofthe visual grammar ofthat original alles time eet can stil be ‘erected in the big CGT-acton fests of ody. "Theil wa’ ust about the aesheticy, though. The Wachowski crafted slick, tity tun tal ful of memorable sequences, ‘irk characters and outlandish srt etry. Kean Reeves ivesa career-best Thomas Anderson, aka the hacking genius Neo ‘who learns tha his word isone big ase Testlied as ell with some chinky logue, but also gaveso much ta the ‘Gone, Mr no ang fi" zeitgeist “Blu ilo red pil ‘Anderson. and, of course co eis frie noEd AEE FORBIDDEN PLANET ALIEN 1956 1979STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE CU fans wl forever argv about whether New | he orginally wanted to emake Flash Gordonbut_ and have never gone away Darth Vader, wings * Tightsabers Jed Desth Star, oh, Hann theo "Theale undenisle An ee 6 Lucas created his own 7 iseuiteveut mythology and crafted whole uherinin 4 Vester influenced space opera full of eye- catching spaceships 9% mi stk.EW a are Pe ee eee ert ters Pee ee a ene Eire ees enn et ee rete ere eed aan Peace eee eet tere ents pee ees eee ae Pr yee Freee een eee etree ser tas Pen For plys Rick Deckard who's clearly based ECan ne tire ees Pere eae te ats eee Ee eee ees arenes Poenernn arr eert eT s eee eens Pee Lee Serena 5 renee rte’ eee eee proaeenenet His Peper cone eet ery eee Speers ten eee een cs pein ener eri corer eee cine Sennen ESSENTIAL RETRO SCI-FI FILMS ea eee es are el ee eter Ce cea) pei peren er eae enineneig pectoris Serene Pee ese ene Le ne ee er eee ed Sere ree Cer Mees faery arabe storia tive soeeeneg Dy vane aOL ne ome SMH mo npennT (ute Her) a epicnt ele by righteous Eeerer ean tee ac yy See nen ery pore eae Eee erent erred RCo ane ec ea tea Pear een tet} Cee wan a ocny THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL JOSEPH MCCABE LOOKS BACK AT THIS CHILLINGLY MEMORABLE SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC WHICH STILL FEELS STRIKINGLY RELEVANT TODAY SUNNY AFTERNOON IN WASHINGTON DC. stepscutof the saucer, and trains pulsating {Children play lovers picnic, and excited dogs run _ electronic eye atone ofthe tanks natant scrossthewidestretchesofgrassthat surround the disintegrating with destructive ry. The ‘monumentsof Americas capital ety Butsomethingis Visitor quiely shout some words of language amis in the midday afternoon. Itstrts alow; distant never before herd on ert, and the robot stops, hum. sound tha growslouderasablindingovaloflight | ozenin place. The soldiers soe the visitor to his becomes viable and glides alongthe clearblue sky Aseven | fect.“Itwasa gif he sys indlcatingthe he noon sn ispaed by tx rilancs, the disedescends and shattered rod onthe lawn, or your president ‘nsform sdefned asa metal saucer, The chilien and ‘With this he could have sta feo the other passersby are hypaatised,tranafixed They watch with mouths | planets” The solders ae custody of the tgapeas the saucer descendson that most American ofall Sanger, confident once more in ther owe, landmarks the capital mall Finally irlandsand slight | chelrauthorit: Bur thei actions today wil have fades, replaced with ony the col exterior ofa device mare repercussions for their word repercessone that foreign. morefightening than any enemy warcraf. willbe feta anoer day. The day on which “Aerowd eutiously approoches the suucer anda barricade | everything changes The day the Earth stood sl ‘quickly erected The military arrives tanks and guns trained | ‘Thouh director Robert Wises seminal 1950s ton the gant dis, poised for attack The saucer. oves.A_ science tion screen clase was concerned with Smooth rampprotudes fom its mid-section, anda small door nothings than the survival of humanity in the slides open atop it Something emerges Isahumanoid igure, _ newly bor atomic age, ts origns were modest helmetedandcladina gleaming metallic su Iewalkstothe | Iebegan ie so many fms of eer sea prodict Fimofthe saucer anddeclaresimamanswoie,“Wehave ofthe dying Hollywood tio sytem Julian come to visi youin peace, and with god wil” ‘Blaustein, staff producer for 20d Century Fo, and hisassstne began searching fora suitable AN UNWELCOME VISITOR subject fora thowghtfl SF film, "People dnt Thevistor descends the amp, asmall metal rod clutched in| by tickets stent letares” Blaustein once tone hand. The crowd draws atreath. Upon eachingthe wn, remarked. "You defeat yourself you try tos3y he continues toward them. Heraiss che object and points tat _ somethingin prey politically oriented them. From the object’ outereasingspringsforharingaf statements Iebecomes bore” He old his needlesyeach a them glistening the sunight young, assistant, “Our dheme is that peace longer fitingatop tank, cant stand any longer. He firs ashoe at fourdettr word” After readings couple ‘he tanger, ering opon his arm, and basting the tny'rod hundred clnce fetion stories and novels" the foutofhishand. The istorcollapeeson the lawn, andthe pir found atl inthe October 1040 ise ofthe rileary moves forward. Asthey approach im, aimetal gant popular magazine Astounding Harry Bates's wontonTHE DAY THE URL SLO ae N A OReTg to make it as real and believable as possible aed or: i | B i wae ea On|ny ‘Tareell tothe Master” Tews about forge pages sid Blaustein. “And jus did ike very Ic abot he story, but what did ike reall need the wheels turning ‘Bates tale provided the baste setup for Daya snhich avis from another world tres to. Earth in peace ony tobe attackedby those who fearthe unusual “The dea that what turns out to bheaman steps off he spaceship brings an fering a et, butbeesuse te stange and ‘ertaintyunosul he’s immeitely shot at by turmilitary and seriously wounded. That ‘ppeatd to me. The way that we dal wich strange thing with weapons, guns No effort at finding ouchow the echer person thinks, el works: Different fom us? Ki hin” BETTER DEAD THAN RED rot aa this theme wai was certainly controversial inthe cary 19505, when McCarthyism was ints infatc,and the Red Sear asus gaining momentum in he United Sates Ae Kenneth Von Gunden and Sua Stock describe tin the chapuer on Day ia hele ‘etntive stay Twenty All-Time Great Sone Feton Fins: “"There wae very real fear that ‘Communistcontroled producer and screenrters were secretly inertng party propaganda into movie serpts” But factor in that Ameria ha dropped the frst atomicomb on “apa just af years arin, and that the polarising Korean War was ane yar underway, andl any eoncers about backistngon the part bof Blaustein were tmpered by an even greater fear ~ that the wor destruction was iraminent ‘Blaustein roughtn Edward H Nore sat writer a Fox to adap ater story tothe screen, North develope the character of Kia, the Kindly alin visor who inan effort to better lunderstand humanity ~ dsgulss himselfas an trdinry un end belrieads mn nderbatiog ‘widow and her so, evenualy enlisting thet id Indemonstaing the awesome night of his people by neutralsingal electric on Earth or So minutes only hosp planes fight, and things fet natre” ae spared) Klaas eventually gunned down but hes brought back {olifeby his lant obot companion Gort (Gna intate'sstory who ifs reveal inthe fl’s A l arin cn) 1 owe wm coun i ors crn ea. oon climax ~is an intergalactic law enforcement ‘fice hat Klass race has surenered some ‘oftheir sovereignty ton oder tonsa the sunival oftheir ace, The only meane of topping GGertisthethre-word command the film would ‘make famous "Klas bared ik ‘Nor elgoussynbalim ~ Kat adopts hename Carpenter” before he ile ‘resurrected at ascends nto che heavensin is ‘ship wen noticed tthe time by director Robert Wise, Wise had made his Hollywood breatirough a an edo, cuting Caen Kane for Orson Welles before honing his sills as dlirector of suspense andthe fantasti for legendary RKO geare poiyer Val Lewton, For Lewton, Wise directed 1940s gems lke The Curse ‘fthe Cat People and The Rady Snatcher. On Day, te applied hia git for cot, realitc dra, ad ‘nce more ground a tory many may have perceived asa to fantasti “eeuse ofthe nate of his soy” sad Wise flee was very important to make asreal and belleableas possible We had this opporeuniy of Ihving istor from another planet comet, soletsmake ras everyday ae we ean in terms of the setings, the surroundings This place, Washington DC, isthe capital of our county ~ wesc the streets the buildings of Washington, fn themes of Washington, and thought wea ery important to make this as down-to-earth tnd belevable ws posible to putour character Fromthe other planet right in the midst ofthe condinzy every ie of people ia this county "Tothav end, Wise washelped immensely by cinematographer Leo Tover whose blak-and- white photography, deep and eis, underlined the humen drama tat isnguised Day fromthe many gaudy colour sc spetactes of it decade “Twas happy to doitin ack and ‘hie sald Wise, “and get as much of arealsie ‘cumentay fel posible, even though i was ‘ton piece “Theblack and white also allowed forthe arf placement of shadows across Gort whose ‘iht-fooe tall costumes - worm by seven oo, ‘Scinch Lack Marti, an actor and former Soran a Graumans Chinese Theater were Tined it aes When Gort walled towards he camer he wore costume with the laes onthe bck and when he walked aay from the camera he wore asecond costume, on which Tnces were in rotPete) on) oes ero Wise brought in composer Bernard Hermann, with whom hed worked on itz Kan, #0 Compose Days ere, memorable score. Hermann, well own to genre fans or dozens of clasi eompasitions (including those for Ray Harryhausen and AlfedHiteheock’s nest efforts), created electronic themes fr the lm $yearsbefore Forbidden Plant popularised the Sle for st cinema, fel” sald Hermann, ‘hort before his death in 1075, we should dot by taking advantage of using electronic instruments, which hadst been done then THE JUDAS TOUCH Wise alo enlisted fate Academy Award winner (and wite of famed childrens book futhor Roald Dah) Patieia Neal inthe role of Helen, the wide whom Kl beiends; and Hugh Meriowe ater to star inthe Harryhaueen ple arth Vs the Flying Sacer) as Helens boyfriend Tom =the fl das” who betrays ‘laa for shot at fae Klas inself would be plane by Betth actor Michael Rene panedby io rari, 2tener | bead & The way that we deal with strange things is with weapons, guns 99 aa EARTH STOOD STILL EET Barada! ty Seed peer aorreinny Paprerar nina Pir oak Perr onan Pee ry oan ar despite the protests of stadia chief Day Zantac who wanted Spencer Tracy inthe role, and Wises instinct ogo with Claude Rains, who tras then too busy with tage production to sien ‘on Michael Rennie’ performance, understated et confident, cool but impassioned s perhaps {he definitive seen portato benign ie Hes tel believable inthe climax ase delivers ‘he lms pivotal speech abou univers peace fteongh compromise. The main dean that story that was sppealing wns that pace En the universe had been achieved by sacrificing some sovereignty to central agency sys Blaustein “But ferevcably So thatthe United Nations, for, became the focal point ofthe way got world peace Give dhe United Nations fll authori to epin, to put down violence wherever they saw it Give them the equipment, he manpower ~ ‘which ofecurse we knew was unreal To give “spsovoreenty is something that very hard to ‘sc hen natonalistic ene todo, Buttes Sea that was very appealing” "Today - with seemingly never-ending war, 2 worldwide pandemic il strifeon every ‘Continent and stark vides in American politics the appeal of Baus’ des hes, aly, ot lestened, But nether has the conviction with ‘which other filmmakers choos to tackle The Day th Barth Stood Suis legacy canbe soen.on screen in everything fram 2001-A Space Ovesey toThedan Who Flo Earthand ET The ‘Bura-Teresial, from Spielberg's mothership to the ominoas shadows of Independence Day. I's 8 ‘warning an inspiration and an enduring tonchatone of antsy Bil, wae se era owen)a) JUST OVER FOUR DECADES AGO THIS MAY, A LITTLE MOVIE CALLED ALIEN CHANGED EVERYTHING. LUKE DORMEHL HITCHES ARIDE ABOARD THE NOSTROMO... nota turned out nearly as well sit id Greenien the wake of Str Wars, ‘when every sho ceecuivein Hollywood was desperatly searching for sei serips twas a derivative dca ‘which owed its inspirations to schlock Tow-budget B-movie with ike Planet Of The Vampires and Night OF The Blood Boos ews originated by ‘wo largely unproven screenvrter, an OTRanaon and Ronald S with rst draftted Star Bes Butunder the guidance of producers ‘alter Hl and Dawid Gilet