It also contains a lot of photographs for visual reference. The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . It also includes essays discussing important themes and topics in science fiction. Science Fiction . Hardy traces science fiction films from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Entries are rather short and are arranged first chronologically, then alphabetically by itle.
This work includes lists of top video rentals, top grossing films, critics' top ten choices, Academy Award Winners, the Triest Festival of Science Fiction Films, and a select bibiography. Overlook Press, 1994. This comprehensive work is divided into decades from science fiction's pre-1900 beginnings to the early 1990s. Entries include an introductory essay tracing the history of SF films in that decade. Within each decade division, entries are arranged by year, then alphabetically.