(1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends  his time searching for evidence of aliens from space.  He soon picks up eerie signals he believes are emanating from an alien spaceship.  

THE TUNNEL (1933) Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Le Vigan, Andre Nox.  There’s a big meeting between the world’s fifteen richest industrialists.  A project is launched to build a tunnel from Long Island to Europe.  As the tunnel progresses, its workers are faced with many perils...

 (1966) Ronald Hines, Petra Davie, Peter Madden, Gay Hamilton, Peter Madden Timothy Bateson.  Hines is haunted by the same dream every night, a dream in which he dies during a massive explosion at a chemical plant.  His wife, too, is haunted by similar dreams.  And why do they seem to be reliving the same 24 hours, with slight variations, day after day...

(1958) Toto, Sylva Koscina, Ugo Tognazzi.  An enjoyable off-beat sci-fi comedy about aliens who try to stop the launching of a man into space.  Lots of intrigue and some genuine laughs.  The final scenes on the moon are quite well done.  Look for some...

(1977, Anamorphic Widescreen) Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský.  This is a brilliant Czech-made sci-fi comedy with many great moments.  A former Nazi, now living in the 1990s by virtue of anti-aging pills, plans to travel through time to 1944 Germany and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb so the Nazis can win the war...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   A grim look at the future is the theme of the first novel, “Tomorrow” by John Tains.  The world was on the verge of total collapse!  One of the most popular writers of 1930s science fiction, Neil R. Jones, is the author of our next tale, “Martian and Troglodyte.”  They discovered life on a budding planet!  A team of Martian scientists raced across...

(1956) Tommy Terrell, Arthur Space, Bruce Cowling, Gavin Gordon. Terrell and his robot, Tobor, land aboard an atomic sub that’s been heisted by criminals.  The sub also has a ticking bomb on board and has been targeted for a nuclear strike!  Gordon (Bride of Frankenstein) has a nice part as a madman who wants to rule the world.  A little schlocky but good fun.  

(1977) Sonny Chiba, Jun Etô.  A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Time Quarry” aka "First He Died" is one of the great science fiction novels of the 20^th Century.   Published in Galaxy Magazine in 1950, it put author Clifford D. Simak’s name clearly in the science fiction spotlight...

(1944, Upgraded 4/28/24) Evelyn Dall, Tommy Handley, George Moon, Felix Aylmer. This is a marvelous sci-fi comedy about a quirky professor who’s invented a combo spaceship/time machine. It’s a great big silver sphere...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Thus Far” is a terrific sci-fi murder mystery.   Had he gone too far for the sake of science?  Once a heralded name among the top scientists of the world, Graham Delaforce was now ridiculed for his enigmatic and strange ideas.  But his self-imposed exile never stopped his...

(1962) Seamon Glass, Mary Morias. Social science fiction at its best. A state trooper stops people along a highway after hearing news of an impending nuclear attack. Good drama as cast members fight and quarrel over what to do before the bombs hit...

(1971) Jack Hedley, John Carson, Alethea Charlton, Sonia Graham. A brilliant scientist has a fantastic plan to secure research money.  He has invented an amazing machine that transfers the mind of one person into the body of another.  He and his wife lure...

(1935, Upgraded 3/21/21) Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardewicke, Edward Chapman, Margaretta Scott, Sophie Stewart. The screens adaptation of H. G. Wells futuristic tales of man's survival after a series of wars and catastrophes. Final segment involving "the space gun" is...

(1961) Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Florin Piersic.  This is perhaps the most surrealistic, offbeat sci-fi film ever made.  It starts with a man accidentally walking into a nuclear test area.  He is apprehended by a squad of men dressed like spacemen, all of whom are holding big ray guns.  He is soon released, but later finds himself the recipient of a fantastic, futuristic suitcase nuclear bomb...