James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
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This companion to the AMC's mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron's archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron's personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.
Lisa Yaszek
Lisa Yaszek is Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech and an award-winning author and editor whose work explores science fiction as a global storytelling tradition connecting past, present, and future. Her books include Sisters of Tomorrow, Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, and the Future Is Female! series. She received the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
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