Films, etc.
"In this issue we transport you to the world of science fiction. A world where everything is possible, and in which (for the most part, at least) Homo sapiens has survived the early wars of planet Earth—and our instincts for self destruction. We have evolved to interplanetary good guys. Sure, there are fights for raw materials in the sci-fi world—see Dune—and mankind’s mortal enemies, the Klingons and Daleks, but for the most part what lies ahead for us is, at the hands of the great writers of the form such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, a better universe…
I have always been a dreamer and a believer. It comes easily to me: the idea that man will build a better place than the one we are in the process of destroying; that humans can get it right in the end. Perhaps the very essence of Christianity— of all faiths—is that there is something better out there for us and our children if we behave with more humanity. Science fiction is an opioid to the masses. The great stories of interplanetary travel and the plots that transport us in their optimism, giving us hope that perhaps there is more out there than just us, are, in my mind, without question. And, as it happens, I know where this hopeful certainty came from: the cinema."
