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    Alien 40th Anniversary edition

    Jun 30, 2019 4 minutes

    To complete our all-science-fiction collection in this issue, we finish with the classic 1979 film Alien. Yes, it’s also a horror film, but if science-fiction is about exploring ideas in technology, space or science, this does that aplenty too. The alien creature might be out to eat all the humans, but how does it’s life-cycle work? This movie thinks about these things, and is faithful to the science... mostly. If there was any mention of the artificial gravity in the Nostromo, it escaped me.

    And as a horror film, it’s immaculate. The horror consists in both the building of tension, and its fruition. It becomes apparent that Ripley — Signourney

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