By the time 2001: A Space Odyssey arrived, everything had changed. Behind the Iron Curtain the Soviets launched their own science fiction boom, one far more realistic and adult-oriented than ours. Pavel Klushantsev’s 1958 documentary, Doroga k zvezdam (Road to the Stars), strongly influenced Kubrick. It starts with a brief history lesson, then moves into … Continue reading Kubrick to Scott: Relevancy and Realism in Cinematic Science Fiction by Mark Cole