Brisk and insightful.

Breezy, anecdotal.

It’s a promising premise, and The Future Was Now has no shortage of juicy storylines.

Ultra-entertaining and informative.

For anyone who delights in the perpetration of human error, be it of judgment, taste, or commercial savvy, Nashawaty offers a wealth of historical evidence.

Nashawaty frames his book by celebrating the rise of rabid genre fans—"smart and selective sensation seekers"—whose Comic-Con gathering is today a studio-sanctioned showcase. But this happy army is never fully fleshed out, and his analysis begs the question: Where were they on Blade Runner, whose thrills wowed even its ornery source novelist, Philip K. Dick?.

An exemplary film history that will appeal to sci-fi buffs and students of the film biz..