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Forbidden Planet: the Star Wars of the 1950s (but with more Shakespeare and less Lightsabers).

Forbidden Planet. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, then clearly, you’re missing out on one of the most seminal

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Forbidden Planet: the film that went to Krell and back for science fiction (movie retrospective).

The human race has accomplished the unthinkable by the 23rd century, with technologies like faster-than-light travel, interplanetary exploration, and humorous

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Forbidden Planet (1956) by Mark R. Leeper (a film retrospective).

I saw that TCM is going to show one of the great and iconic Science Fiction films of all time.

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Forbidden Planet store makes Danie Ware redundant (news).

Sad news in, long time face of the Forbidden Planet megastore and UK SFF book chain, Danie Ware, has been

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Forbidden Planet megastore and offshoot shops shut (news).

Well, there goes my favourite geek-specialist retail experience off Oxford Street – the London Forbidden Planet megastore and its various

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Stephen Hunt book signing at London Forbidden Planet Megastore: evening of Thursday 15th May.

Stephen Hunt will be launching and signing his new novel In Dark Service at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Thursday

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