MTPLsf: MIDDLETOWN [NJ] PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE-FICTION BOOK & FILM GROUP (1st Thursday, 5:30-8:30) (further info: xchar2@gmail.com) MTPLsf: MOVIES SEEN & related readings 2008-2023 [movies in alphabetical order here] ================== 2008 ======================================= 11/13 Minority Report (2002): Philip K. Dick 12/11 The Thing (1982): Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. ================== 2009 ======================================= 01/08 The Andromeda Strain (1971): Michael Crichton 02/12 Starship Troopers (1997): Robert Heinlein 03/12 Planet of the Apes (1982): Pierre Boulle 04/09 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates 05/14 Fahrenheit 451 (1966): Ray Bradbury 06/11 This Island Earth (1955): Raymond F. Jones 07/09 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): Vonda K. McIntyre 08/13 Jurassic Park (1993): Michael Crichton 09/10 Blade Runner (1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick 10/08 When Worlds Collide (1951): Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer 11/12 The Boys from Brazil (1978): Ira Levin 12/10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954): Jules Verne ================== 2010 ======================================= 01/14 The Fly (1958): George Langelaan 02/11 Total Recall (1990): We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick 03/11 Flatland, the Film (2007): Edwin A. Abbott 04/08 The Illustrated Man (1969): Ray Bradbury 05/13 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976): Walter Tevis 06/10 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964): Charles G. Finney 07/08 Richard III (1995): William Shakespeare 08/12 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005): Douglas Adams 10/14 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): Jack Finney 11/11 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Arthur C. Clarke 12/09 The Man from Earth (2007): It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby ================== 2011 ======================================= 01/13 The 10th Victim (1965): Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley 02/10 Forbidden Planet (1956): The Tempest by William Shakespeare 03/10 Paycheck (2003): Philip K. Dick 04/14 On the Beach (1959): Nevil Shute 05/12 Somewhere in Time (1988): Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson 06/09 The Last Man on Earth (1964): I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 07/14 Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970): Dennis Feltham Jones 08/12 Panic in the Year Zero (1962): Lot and Lot's Daughter by Ward Moore 09/08 The Last Unicorn (1982): Peter S. Beagle 10/13 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): F. Scott Fitzgerald 11/10 Quatermass and the Pit (1967): Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke 12/08 Hogfather (2007): Terry Pratchett ================== 2012 ======================================= 01/12 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): Ray Bradbury 02/09 Quest for Love (1971): Random Quest by John Wyndham 03/15 Hogfather, episode 2 (2007): Terry Pratchett 04/12 The Postman (1997): David Brin 05/10 The Fly (1986): George Langelaan 06/14 Twelve Monkeys (1995): By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein 07/12 Ray Bradbury Theater: 3 stories by Ray Bradbury 09/13 Wyrd Sisters (1997): Terry Pratchett 10/11 GATTACA (1997): Frameshift by Robert Sawyer 12/13 K-Pax (2001): Gene Brewer ================== 2013 ======================================= 01/10 The Puppet Masters (1994): Robert A. Heinlein 03/14 Sleep Dealer (2008): Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein 04/11 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004): The Memory Clearing House by Israel Zangwill 05/09 eXistenZ (1999): Christopher Priest 06/13 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959): Jules Verne 07/11 Ray Bradbury Theater: 3 stories by Ray Bradbury 09/12 Cypher (2002): UBIK by Philip K. Dick 10/10 Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964): Daniel Defoe 11/14 The Abyss (1989): Sphere by Michael Crichton 12/12 The Iron Giant (1999): The Iron Man by Ted Hughes ================== 2014 ======================================= 01/09 Moon (2009): Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys 03/13 Children of Men (2006): P.D. James 04/10 Frankenstein (1994): Mary Shelley 05/08 Never Let Me Go (2010): Kazuo Ishiguro 06/12 Blindness (2008): Jose Saramago 07/10 The Princess Bride (1987): William Goldman 08/14 Dr. Strangelove (1964): Red Alert by Peter George 09/11 Oblivion (2013): The White Mountains by John Christopher 10/09 Pi (1998): The Gimatria of Pi by Lavie Tidhar 11/13 Time After Time (1979): Karl Alexander 12/11 Stalker (1979): Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ================== 2015 ======================================= 01/08 Mimic (1997): Donald Wollheim 02/12 Village of the Damned (1960): The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 03/12 The Man in the High Castle (2015): Philip K. Dick 04/09 Europa Report (2013): Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 05/14 The War of the Worlds (1953): H.G. Wells 06/11 Galaxy Quest (1999): Terry Bisson 08/13 Timescape (1992): Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore 09/10 Phase IV (1974): Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson 10/08 The Invisible Man (1933): H.G. Wells 11/12 Soylent Green (1973): Make Room, Make Room by Harry Harrison 12/10 District 9 (2009): Embassytown by China Mieville ================== 2016 ======================================= 01/14 The Whole Wide World (1996): Pigeons from Hell & Red Nails by Robert E. Howard 02/11 Seven Days in May (1964): Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II 03/10 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick 04/14 The Whisperer in Darkness (2011): H. P. Lovecraft 05/12 Lost Horizon (1937): James Hilton 06/09 The Adjustment Bureau (2010): Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick 07/14 Robocop (1987): Brillo by Ben Bova & Harlan Ellison 08/11 Ex Machina (2015): Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey 09/08 The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Richard Condon 11/10 Island of Lost Souls (1932): The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells 12/08 Ender's Game (2013): Orson Scott Card ================== 2017 ====================================== 01/12 12:01 PM (1990) & 12:01 (1993): Richard Lupoff 03/09 Shadow on the Land (1968): It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 04/13 Groundhog Day (1993): Doubled and Redoubled by Malcolm Jameson 05/11 The Thirteenth Floor (1999): Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye 06/08 WALL-E (2008): The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster 07/13 Limitless (2011): The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn 08/10 The Martian (2015): Andy Weir 09/14 Quatermass and the Pit (1967): Aficionado by David Brin 10/12 Solaris (1972): Stanislaw Lem 11/09 Cat People (1942): The Bagheeta by Val Lewton 12/14 Predestination (2015): All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein ================= 2018 ====================================== 02/08 Silent Running (1972): The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin 03/08 The Lathe of Heaven (1980): Ursula K. Le Guin 04/12 John Carter (2012): A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 05/10 Contact (1997): Carl Sagan 06/14 El Incidente (2014): Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick 07/12 War of the Worlds (2005): The Martian War by Kevin J. Anderson 08/09 A Boy and His Dog (1975): Harlan Ellison 09/13 Fissure (2009): And He Built a Crooked House by Robert A. Heinlein 11/08 Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935): Mary Shelley 12/13 The Thing From Another World (1951): Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. ================= 2019 ====================================== 01/10 Edge of Tomorrow (2014): All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka 03/14 Dr. Cyclops (1940): Dr. Cyclops by Henry Kuttner 04/11 The Congress (2014): The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem 05/09 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953): The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury 06/13 The Matrix (1999): Neuromancer by William Gibson 07/11 Destination Moon (1950): The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein 08/08 First Men in the Moon (1964): The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells 09/12 Slaughterhouse-Five (1972): Kurt Vonnegut 10/21 The Haunting (1963): The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 12/12 The Last Mimzy (2007): Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett ================= 2020 ====================================== 01/09 Charly (1963): Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 02/13 The Handmaid's Tale (1990): Margaret Atwood 11/05 The Innocents (1961): The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 12/03 The Quiet Earth (1985): Craig Harrison ================= 2021 ====================================== 01/07 1984 (1984): George Orwell 02/04 The Prestige (2006): Christopher Priest 03/04 Enemy Mine (1985): Barry B. Longyear 04/01 A Wrinkle in Time (2018): Madeleine L'Engle 06/03 The Stepford Wives (1975): Ira Levin 07/01 Seconds (1966): David Ely 08/12 A Scanner Darkly (2006): Philip K. Dick 09/02 Ray Bradbury Centennial (3 short films) 10/07 Annihilation (2018): Jeff VanderMeer 12/02 Curse of the Demon (1957): Casting the Runes by M.R. James ================= 2022 ====================================== 01/06 Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979): The Inquest by Stanislaw Lem 02/03 Five (1951): The Creation by James Weldon Johnson 03/03 Under the Skin (2014): Michel Faber 04/07 The Fifth Element (1997): Terry Bisson 05/05 S1m0ne (2002): Remake by Connie Willis 06/02 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001): Supertoys... by Brian Aldiss 07/07 The Lost World (1925): Arthur Conan Doyle 08/04 The Hidden (1987): Needle by Hal Clement 10/06 Between Time and Timbuktu (1972 tv): Kurt Vonnegut Jr 11/03 Nosferatu (1922): Dracula by Bram Stoker 12/01 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979): Nigel Kneale ================= 2023 ====================================== 01/05 To Serve Man (1962 tv): Damon Knight 02/02 Alphaville (1965): You'd Be Surprised by Peter Cheyney (not sf) 03/03 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): Vonda N. McIntyre 03/30 Orlando (1992): Virginia Woolf 05/04 Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2021) & The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (2020): Stanislaw Lem 06/01 Altered States (1980): Paddy Chayefsky 07/06 Fermat's Last Tango (2001): Clarke & Pohl The Last Theorem (2008) 08/03 Fantastic Voyage (1966): Isaac Asimov 09/14 The Road (2009): Cormac McCarthy 10/05 Fantastic Planet (1973): Stefan Wul 11/02 The Day of the Triffids (1981 tv): John Wyndham 12/07 Sleeper (1973): The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells ================= 2024 ====================================== 01/04 Arrival (2016): Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang 02/01 Wir (1982): We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 03/07 Rollerball (1975): Roller Ball Murder by William Harrison 04/04 Who? (1974): short story & novel by Algis Budrys 05/02 Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924): Alexei Tolstoy 06/06 Inception (2010): The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges ==========================================