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Just as restaurants have guides informing patrons how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, in 1999, the creators of the eschatologically inclined Left Behind series made this video, Have You Been Left Behind? More »
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I've never read the Rapturey Left Behind series, but from what I understand, a whole bunch of nice, pious people are abducted by God and the rest of us grubbers have to slum it on Earth with Kirk Cameron. More »
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During a recent campaign appearance, Republican presidential candidate John McCain revealed his science fictional side: He gave an entire speech where he pretended the year was 2012 and he'd already been president for four years. Apparently, he'd been getting a lot of things done, like fixing the environment and lowering taxes. More importantly, though, he was participating in a U.S. conservative tradition. He was spinning tales of a future where conservative forces triumph, roll back progressive culture, and make the world a better place. Like conservative congressman Newt Gingrich, who published an alternative history novel, McCain was trying to seduce U.S. voters with his vision of another world. Given the political climate in the U.S. right now, it would seem that conservative science fiction is pretty compelling indeed. Let's take a look at a few of the greatest hits of right-wing scifi from the USA. More »
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The Left Behind books (and movies) are one of the most popular edge-cases in the science fiction world. They're shunned by many SF fans as too cheesily religious, yet embraced by zillions of Christians who made this many-volumed tale of the Rapture and Armageddon into bestsellers. They're an odd anomaly hovering between great apocalypse scifi and Great Apocalypse from The Bible. Left Behind the movie is actually pretty good B-movie scifi fare, and you can see in our clip that the spooky Rapture scene on a plane feels pretty much like the opening of an alien abduction flick. Plus, Left Behind is only one of many other stories where the work of angels looks basically like the work of aliens. We've got a list of five kickass alien angels for you right here. More »
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