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• despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
• the 1972 science fiction horror film Night of the Lepus was panned by critics for its failure to make killer bunnies seem scary?
• a theme in Robert Heinlein's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land is group marriage?
• The Softwire is PJ Haarsma's young adult science fiction series about a thirteen-year-old Johnny T, and his struggles with "the Knudniks, the Nagools, and his indentured slavery"?
• Return from the Stars is regarded as the most optimistic of Stanisław Lem science fiction utopian novels?
• The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?
• the 2009 science fiction television series Twin Spica was produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?
• the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
• the Leading Edge, a student-run semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen?
• the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels?
• the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon?
• the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg, which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award?
• the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century?
• New Writings in SF is the earliest of the notable science fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
• Jeff Hawke, a science fiction comic strip, almost perfectly predicted the date of the first human moon landing more than ten years before?
• Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
• Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?
• Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali?
• Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography?
• Finnish-born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
• Werner Erhard named his company Erhard Seminars Training after the science fiction book est: The Steersman Handbook?
• Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed was the largest science fiction bookshop and comic store in Europe during the 1970s?
• Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery?
• Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future?
• The Chicago Reader in 2007 said the 1971 science fiction theatrical production Warp! "anticipated the Star Wars phenom by several years"?
• Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico?
• Matt Smith, who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the youngest person to be cast in the title role?
• 1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?