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Matte painting of "space vessel C-57D" from the film Forbidden Planet
Featured Essays
Forbidden Planet

70 Years Ago, Forbidden Planet Changed Science Fiction Cinema

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Scene from Forbidden Planet, featuring Anne Francis (as Altaira Morbius), Leslie Nielsen (as Cmmr. James J. Adams), and Robby the Robot
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Forbidden Planet

Brian K. Vaughan Will Write a Forbidden Planet Remake for Warner Bros.

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Scene from Forbidden Planet, featuring Anne Francis (as Altaira Morbius), Leslie Nielsen (as Cmmr. James J. Adams), and Robby the Robot
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Science Fiction Film Club

Forbidden Planet: The Moment Hollywood Got Serious About Sci Fi Cinema

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Black and white image from the film Le Voyage dans la Lune: a large spacecraft capsule has crashed onto the moon, directly into the face of "the man on the moon"
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Science Fiction Film Club

Introducing the Reactor Science Fiction Film Club!

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Spaceship in Forbidden Planet
Movies & TV
movies

Another One of Them New Worlds: Revisiting Forbidden Planet

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Lists
robots

The Greatest Science Fiction Robots of All Time

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News
On Our Radar

Mark Hamill, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and More: Amazing Photos from 40 Years of Forbidden Planet

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Thor, 2011, Marvel
Featured Essays
Shakespeare

What We Mean When We Call Something “Shakespearean”

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Featured Essays
SFF Geology

The Science of Desert Planets

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News
Events

See Paul Cornell, Zen Cho, and Cassandra Khaw at Forbidden Planet London!

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Blog
Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet Events and How We Run Them

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Books
artificial intelligence

The Future is Here and it Doesn’t Need You: Top Ten Movies About Killer Artificial Intelligence

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