Best movie encyclopedias according to redditors

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u/goatserevival · 4 pointsr/StarWarsEU

With the dystopian retro-futuristic technology available in the pre-prequel trilogy, it is believable that Tattooine was very isolated. Old Universe Luke Skywalker goes into the more civilized places often, has several friends, a Skyhopper, and calls old "Ben Kenobi" a crazy hermit. The modern material has added the holonet and even holo channels that mirror our modern society, and Tattooine is turned from a backwater planet into a smuggler mecca with very heavy traffic.

Another planet that suffered "modernization" is Dathomir. When it first appeared it had absolutely nothing but several small force cults. Some light, some dark, they came from the remnants a Dark Jedi's teachings and a Jedi Academy ship led by Yoda that crashed on the planet later. The planet was so uninteresting and unimportant that Han Solo won it in a bet, and when visiting he couldn't find a place where to land. In the modern material, it is a key planet and the Witches of Dathomir have a very well organized society, being a Dark Side faction who play a hand in the fate of the galaxy, and Dathomir is very frequently visited by outsiders.

I could nerd on and on about this topic, but I'll end it by recommending this encyclopedia, written in 1998, as a record of where Star Wars was before 1999. The older material had lots of cliche scifi space pirate femme fatales, multi-dimensional lovecraftian monsters (even stronger and more preposterous than Abeloth) and the technology was a mirror of pre-information age technology.

u/culturefan · 3 pointsr/printSF

I've always enjoyed this coffee table book by John Clute called Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. A lot of nice photos of books, movies and TV series with some pretty good criticism (not that I agree with it all). You can find a used one cheap on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Encyclopedia-John-Clute/dp/0789401851/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491059064&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=The+illustrated+encyclopeida+to+science+fiction+john+clute

u/WhineyThePooh · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

I don't have many sci-fi coffee table books, and those that I do have are too specific and not necessarily what you are looking for, but I REALLY enjoy window shopping for this sort of thing so here goes...

One of these illustrated encyclopedias might be what you are looking for?

This sort of intrigues me.

Here's a list of sci fi art books that might intrigue you, though they aren't movie/book/magazine based, necessarily.

It seems a lot of the books that focus more on posters and the like are even further divided by subcategory... Is there a particular sub-genre of sci-fi that you are looking for? Like I'm seeing a bunch with like Marvel superheroes specifically, or with Star Wars or Middle Earth...

u/blahblahbush · 1 pointr/tipofmytongue