Amazon.com Product DescriptionThis multimedia CD-ROM is based on John Clute and Peter Nicholls's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It includes more than 4,500 entries on SF authors, books, films, concepts, and themes. It has extensive hyperlinks and cross-references, plus video and audio interviews, film stills and trailers, photos of SF book covers and authors, and more. You can explore the themes of science fiction through video surveys. Use the Time Machine to put SF events in historical perspective. Get a closer look at pivotal works with the Book Browser. See hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and movie clips, and get to know the authors in video and audio interviews in the Gallery.
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Rating: - Absolutely indispensable!
Anyone who teaches science fiction at any level must have this reference. I've been teaching sf at MIT since 1983, and I'd give up my computer before I would give up this CD.
Rating: - A "must" for all dedicated scifi genre students and fans.
This Grolier multimedia encyclopedia of science fiction draws upon the advantages of CD-ROM technology to create a superbly presented, multimedia-rich survey of more than 400 years of science fiction history. Offering 4,5000 entries, hundreds of illustrations, photographs, movie clips, and totally engaging interactive features, the SciFi buff is presented with 300 science fiction classics in twelve different categories. Ideal for personal, school, and community library software collections, ... Read More
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