[Herewith, we present more of Ed Naha on Science Fiction; this time Ed trots out his pick of the best of science fiction movies, past and present. Sci-Fi literature, TV, etc., will be dealt with in future issues. —Ed.]

The science fiction film is a hard animal to pin down in that a lot of well known "monster" films have had a firm

Ed Naha is the author of Horrors— From Screen To Scream (Avon Books), and the producer of a record, Gene Roddenberry: Inside Star Trek (CBS). foundation in abberated science (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, King Kong). So, avoiding all the accepted horror films, here's a crash course in sci-fi moviedom with the accent on the sci.