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Marc Caro, “Dante 01” (2008)

July 20, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

marc-caro-dante-01-2008“Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It’s a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship’s depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits… each must confront his own Dragon.”    —IMDb

Check out a review of Dante 01 here.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2008, Films, Science Fiction

Fritz Lang, “Metropolis” (1927)

October 15, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

fritz-lang-metropolis-1927“At about 80-90 minutes into the film, the Seven Deadly Sins with Death are presented as statues in a church. Death is playing a bone as if it were a flute, and the statues of the Seven Deadly Sins come to life.”    –Ian Eternick

Contributed by Ian Eternick (Luther College, ’11)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1927, Expressionist, Films, Germany, Science Fiction, Sins

Star Trek’s First Pilot Episode, “The Cage” (1966)

February 1, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Captain Pike says he feels like he is in Dante’s Inferno.

Contributed by Lisa Peterson (Bowdoin, ’07)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1966, Inferno, Science Fiction, Television

Janet Jensen, “Dante’s Equation” (2006)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

janet-jensen-dantes-equation-2006“Science and sci-fi go hand in hand in this ambitious, if not entirely successful, thriller by Jensen (Millennium Rising), which incorporates elements of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) as well as theoretical physics. During WWII, physicist and mystic Rabbi Yosef Kobinski vanished from Auschwitz in a blinding flash of light. Kobinski left behind at the camp his Kabbalist masterpiece, The Book of Torment, to be buried for safekeeping. Half a century later, a Jerusalem rabbi and an American journalist are trying to find it.”    –Publishers Weekly, Amazon

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2006, Novels, Physics, Religion, Science Fiction, Thrillers, WWII

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Inferno (1976)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

larry-niven-and-jerry-pournell-inferno-1976“After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he’s landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante’s road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he’s taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin–recast for the present day.”    —Amazon

 

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1976, Fiction, Hell, Inferno, Novels, Science Fiction

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