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When Worlds (don't) collide - Sci-fi and Politics in 1950's

Quatermass 2

 

Introduction

       The term science fiction was conied in the 1920s by the American publisher Hugo Gernsback that was one of the first in using the term "science fiction": a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.

"Here's looking at you, kid."
Casablanca, 1942