This exciting new anthology brings together many diverse views on blockbuster and cult science fiction films of the 1970's. These essays, which range in focus from Alien to Zardoz, explore some of the most fundamental questions about the meaning of being human. The chapters of the first section challenge our notions of heroism, confronting our ideas Other issues of history, gender and embodiment. The second section's contributions delve into the human caused monstrosities of our own ingenuity a...