Southern California's cultural climate and landscape has long been an incubator for science fiction, from the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society's early days at Clifton's Cafeteria in the 1930s ...

So here are some of the best dream cities in science fiction. City of Lost Children Though this movie takes place in a surreal city where a mad scientist steals children’s dreams, it also ...

Elizabeth Cummins Cogell The Middle-Landscape Myth in Science Fiction. In a recent article in Parabola, Ursula K. Le Guin has identified myth as "an expression of one of the several ways the human ...

John W. Campbell’s 1931 novel Islands of Space mentions a force field surrounding an alien city. ... the tractor beam landscape, ... that we use in science fiction—and even science ...