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Religion in science fiction

  • Star WarsWithin three weeks of Star Wars opening, Fox's stock price doubled to a record high. Fox had expected limited success.
  • FrankensteinBoris Karloff's lightning-jolted monster is not what Mary Shelley wrote. That image came largely from a 1931 film.
  • BioShock InfiniteBioShock Infinite sends its hero to a city that floats among the clouds above America in 1912. Irrational Games developed it and 2K published it in 2013, and it is a first-person shooter that leans hard on story. The hero is Booker DeWitt,…
  • The Matrix (franchise)The Matrix franchise began in 1999 with a film that cost $63 million to make and earned over $460 million worldwide. That success grew into four feature films, plus animation, video games and comics set in the same universe. Joel Silver…
  • Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels gave computer science the terms big-endian and little-endian.
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?The term Blade Runner never appears in Dick's novel, yet some later printings used it as the title.
  • The End of EvangelionThe End of Evangelion, a 1997 Japanese animated film, carried a startling line on its poster: "Wouldn't it be nice if everyone would just die?" Japanese media seized on the contrast with the poster for Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke,…
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise)Neon Genesis Evangelion had a manga running eight months before its anime aired.
  • JediismJediism first appeared in a 2001 email campaign urging people to write "Jedi" on census forms.
  • Megami TenseiMegami Tensei reached Japanese players on the 11th of September 1987, when Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei launched on the Famicom. The game grew out of a science-fiction novel series by Aya Nishitani, and the franchise took its name…

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