Literature of Science Fiction Lecture Series
- Now Available on DVD

DMZ has gone to great effort to restore these films and present them with superb image quality in a two-DVD set. Including an introduction by James Gunn, explaining the beginning of the initial project, notes by Eric Solstein about the restoration, and transcripts of each individual film (such as this one of Isaac Asimov), this is the first and foremost audio-visual record of science fiction.

Read a review by Paul Di Filippo of this new film series here.

An excerpt of Di Filippo's review:

"Starting in the late 1960s, editor, critic and SF writer James Gunn began filming interviews and lectures with and from a variety of his peers, with the main, stated purpose of employing these films as curriculum aids at his college, and with a secondary purpose of presenting a public face for the literature of the fantastic. But in reality Gunn was embarked on an even larger quest: preserving a vast horde of knowledge locked up in the brains of these men (no women writers, alas, were selected during the brief flourishing of this project), invaluable knowledge and experiences from the first five decades of genre SF. In effect, Gunn was creating an oral history and exegesis of the genre that would preserve seminal information and critical thoughts about the field for all who came after."

The Center for the Study of Science Fiction has copies of this two-DVD set and is offering them directly. Cost is a suggested donation of $49.95 (US shipping included) to the Center. If you are interested, contact Lydia Ash ( lash@ku.edu ) or send a check made out to KU Endowment to:

CSSF c/o Lydia Ash
Department of English
Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 3001
Lawrence KS 66045-7590

Also see the new DVD imprint of the John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction.

updated 4/7/2013