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Nazi rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun wrote a science fiction novel in 1949 called Project Mars: A Technical Tale. The novel takes place in the 1980s and is about the first human mission to Mars and their encounter with benevolent Martians on the planet, including the Martian leader, Elon.
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Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. His first novel was published in 1950, and he died in 1992. This means he wrote aprox 1 book per month for 42 straight years.
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The fish Sarpa salpa (known as the dreamfish) is hallucinogenic. In 2006, two men who ate the fish described experiencing frightening hallucinations that lasted for 36 hours. These hallucinogenic fishes suggested to contain DMT where one experience is described as “After eating, he experienced intense hallucinations with a science-fiction theme that included futuristic vehicles, images […]
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I’ve never been the biggest science fiction or fantasy fan in my life, but I’ve become way more interested in it during the past few years.
Maybe it’s because it seems like we’re headed toward a dystopian nightmare as a species!
Good times!
Do you want to watch a whole lot of quality sci-fi and fantasy movies? Well, you’re in luck, because Netflix has a bunch of secret codes you can use to access sub-genres of these types of films.
To access each of these individual categories, sign into Netflix and replace the “xxx” in this web address (www.netflix.com/browse/genre/xxx) with the corresponding code number below OR just click directly on the links we provided.
Let’s take a look at the different genres you can explore
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This sub-genre seems to be very, very popular these days.
When you tap into this page using the code on Netflix, you can watch such flicks as Snowpiercer, Minority Report, and Cloverfield.
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You can never get enough of alien movies, am I right?
Of course, I am!
Utilize this secret code and enjoy such alien movies as District 9, The Signal, and many others.
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Is fantasy more your speed? If so, you’re in luck.
Type in that secret Netflix code and you can watch such mind-bending flicks as Pan’s Labyrinth, Underworld, The Last Airbender, and others.
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I have a feeling a lot of you are going to like the offerings in this genre.
Open up this category and you can view such films as Avengers: Infinity War, all three Back to the Future films, and Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Let’s get weird AND dramatic, shall we?
With the Sci-Fi Drama code, you can enjoy titles like Bird Box, Moon (a great movie, in my personal opinion), and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
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Let’s get really creepy, okay?
When you combine science fiction and horror, you know it’s gonna be a scare-fest.
When you tap into this code, you can watch such disturbing movies as Apollo 18, Tremors, and Cloverfield.
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When you use this secret code on Netflix, you get to watch movies that are a great combination of science fiction and thrillers.
Watch such movies as In the Shadow of the Moon, The Endless, Transcendence, and How It Ends.
There’s a lot of great stuff in there to watch when you’re stuck at home!
Now we want to hear from you!
In the comments, share some of your favorite science fiction and fantasy movies that you think we should check out.
Please and thank you!
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As a big fan of all things horror and science fiction, I have to say that I LOVE these illustrations.
They come to us from an illustrator named Ed Harrington who lives in Virginia.
Among other artworks, Harrington draws characters from horror and sci-fi movies as though they were instructions from IKEA.
The end products are totally awesome and also pretty funny, if you ask me.
Let’s take a look at Harrington’s work…you might never look at Freddy Krueger the same way again…
RoboCop for the win!
Or else you’ll regret it…
Three, four, better lock your door.
Will he ever escape from this?!?!
Build your own Darth Vader!
Especially those from The Walking Dead!
Definitely not someone you want to run into…
One of the movies that ruined my childhood.
Damien from The Omen.
Hello, Clarice…
Also known as Gage. If you haven’t seen it, you’ll never look at a scalpel or an Achilles tendon the same way ever again…
Masters of the Universe!
Those are awesome!
And what an amazingly original idea, right?
What other characters would you like to see Ed Harrington illustrate in this fashion?
Tell us what you think in the comments!
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Deadline is 1944 sci-fi story about the use of nuclear bomb. It includes topics such as uranium enrichment, methods of isotopic separation and moral questions about the weapon. Author had no knowledge of Manhattan project and came up with the idea from scientific journals.
Jules Verne’s wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
In 1995, Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in one of his 1950s novel “Caves of Steel”.
40 years before James Cameron’s “Avatar” was released, the “Noon Universe” Russian sci-fi novels were published, set on a forest planet called Pandora in the 22nd century, inhabited by humanoids called Nave (compared to the “Na’vi” in Avatar).
Douglas Adams came up with the title for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to Europe. Looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy as […]
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