Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |  | From: Grolier Multimedia
Category: Software
This item is no longer available
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 10799
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows 95, Windows NT
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 1.5
Model: DEM11RS
UPC: 086595232170
EAN: 0086595232170
ASIN: B00002S7MB
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Amazon.com Product Description
This multimedia CD-ROM is based on John Clute and Peter Nicholls's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It includes more than 4,500 entries on SF authors, books, films, concepts, and themes. It has extensive hyperlinks and cross-references, plus video and audio interviews, film stills and trailers, photos of SF book covers and authors, and more. You can explore the themes of science fiction through video surveys. Use the Time Machine to put SF events in historical perspective. Get a closer look at pivotal works with the Book Browser. See hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and movie clips, and get to know the authors in video and audio interviews in the Gallery.
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Absolutely indispensable! February 4, 2001
Joe Haldeman
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anyone who teaches science fiction at any level must have this reference. I've been teaching sf at MIT since 1983, and I'd give up my computer before I would give up this CD.
A "must" for all dedicated scifi genre students and fans. September 7, 2000
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Grolier multimedia encyclopedia of science fiction draws upon the advantages of CD-ROM technology to create a superbly presented, multimedia-rich survey of more than 400 years of science fiction history. Offering 4,5000 entries, hundreds of illustrations, photographs, movie clips, and totally engaging interactive features, the SciFi buff is presented with 300 science fiction classics in twelve different categories. Ideal for personal, school, and community library software collections, the Grolier Science Fiction is a "must" for all dedicated students and fans of this unique literary genre, and represents the first multimedia encyclopedia that places key science fiction events in their proper historical perspective.
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