Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

AMC have teamed up with James Cameron for a new television history of science fiction, debuting in 2018.

In the six one-hour episodes, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction will see the Terminator creator introducing one of the “Big Questions” humanity has contemplated through history, delving into science fiction’s past to understand how the genre’s films, TV shows, books, and video games were born, and where the genre, and the human race , might be headed. Cameron and his contemporaries debate the merits, meanings, and impacts of the films and novels that influenced them.

“When I was a kid, I basically read any book with a spaceship on the cover and I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey many, many times,” Cameron explained. “The movie inspired me to become a filmmaker. I liked the special effects, but I really loved the ideas and the questions behind them: How will the world end? Will technology destroy us? What does it mean to be human? These are subjects sci-fi has never been afraid to tackle.

“With this series, we are going back to the origins of sci-fi, following the DNA of these ideas back to the source. Without Jules Verne and H.G. Wells there wouldn’t have been Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, and without them, there wouldn’t be Lucas, Spielberg, Ridley Scott or me. As a filmmaker who specializes in science fiction, I’m interested in exploring the struggles and the triumphs that brought these incredible stories to life and seeing how art imitates life, as well as how science fiction imitates and sometimes informs science.”