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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. hardcover. ix + 279 pp. with bibliography, filmography, index. Illustrated qwith photos. A profound and serious investigation of the popular cultural form as represented by science fiction films that have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, all sorts of robotic creatures, and various forms of monsters. What has been the undeniable popular appeal of this generation characters? What is the relationship of mad scientist to subject, of human to android, of creature to creator? Anthropologist and author Per Schelde locates the origin of science fiction creatures in the tradition creatures in ancient folklore.…