Sci Fi TV: From the Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine

by James Van Hise

A history of science fiction television covers its most celebrated successes and failures while revealing how the genre shakily began with such programs as "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek" and rose to galactic proportions

Genres: Star Trek, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

James Van Hise is an American popular culture historian and comic book author. He had a long connection with the popular fanzine Rocket's Blast Comicollector (RBCC), and was its editor/publisher from 1974 to 1983. He also had a lengthy association with Hal Schuster, owner of New Media Publishing and Pioneer Books. Van Hise is the author of more than ten books, many of them published by Pioneer Books.

Reviews

[Jersy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is kind of the 90s version of these series retrospective videos on youtube - and I love this stuff.
If you have seen some of the shows discussed it's a nice reminder of great aspects and moments from it, if you haven't you get an overview that makes you want to watch some of this old stuff, at least that's what the book did for me.
For every show discussed there is a mixture of general information, very short episode recaps and behind the scenes information.
It made me really excited to rewatch or discover some of the tv shows and gave me exactly what I wanted from it. The only reason I can't give 5 stars is that describing episode over episode in a few sentences over x amount of pages can get tedious, though I didn't mind much.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very nice reference book for those interested in SF Tv.