"Science fiction has captured the imagination of moviegoers ever since Georges Méliès landed a space rocket in the man in the moon's eye in Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) back in 1902. Perhaps more than any other genre, sci-fi is capable of evoking mankind's greatest hopes and darkest fears, sometimes in the space of one movie. From the shiny swear-free utopia of Demolition Man to the post-apocalyptic hellscape of the Mad Max series, the world of science fiction is almost limitless in its potential to confound, amaze, delight, and terrify.
While the established masterpieces like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars: A New Hope and Blade Runner have become part of our collective pop consciousness, the genre is so vast that some great movies sometimes slip under the radar."
