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In conjunction with the 2007 San Diego Comic Book Convention,
Galactic Books will be publishing
Dissecting Aliens by three-time Hugo nominee
John L. Flynn. For more than fifty years, Hollywood has had a love affair with marauding aliens from beyond space bent on world domination and generally making our lives miserable. In 1951, the first real alien menace was thawed out at a remote arctic outpost, and reflected our Cold War fears as that "thing" from another world. The call to "keep watching the skies" was a prophetic warning that other alien terrors would soon be coming our way. Come, they did! Theater marquees all over the world exploded with titles that paid deference to the invasion with lurid titles like "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" and "The Fiend without a Face." The cycle eventually ran its cinematic course, and was replaced by other fears and anxieties. Then, in 1979, by borrowing very liberally from the lurid sci-fi movies of the past, Ridley Scott unleashed one of the cinema's greatest monsters. "Alien" was a visceral experience that exploited our repressed desires and hidden fears, and helped to remind us why our Paleolithic ancestors were so afraid of the dark. This book is a celebration of the "Alien" movies, their precursors and their competitors. Available for the first time, July 2007, at the San Diego Comic Book convention. The book
is perfect bound,6x9, 224 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9769400-3-6, and retails for
$12.95.
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50 Years of Hammer Horror by John L. Flynn, Ph.D.
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