Until September, the Science Museum in London is running a new exhibition to explore everything from time machines, parallel worlds and aliens in their Out of this World science fiction exploration.
The museum is tackling this subject from a very broad perspective, although don’t expect to find too many people dressed as Mr. Spock. Exhibition space is split into various categories including:
Virtual Worlds – explore the way writers have seen the world in a totally backwards and inside out manner, as Alice Through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland. Normal worlds changed almost beyond recognition and how they draw us in.
Parallel Worlds – looking far back in history with time machines from HG Wells and El Anacronópete which was published in 1887 and is believed to be the earliest incarnation of a time machine. The ship envisaged would run on electricity, a new magical force that seemed limitless in its powers.
The End of the World – which doesn’t appear to have happened last Saturday, but could still occur with either manmade or natural disaster. Or of course, we could suffer from the H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” ending which frightened so many when it was originally broadcast on radio.
There’s more details on the Out of this World exhibition on Science Museum web site.
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