

Now we’ve come to the submarine from the 1961 movie “ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” and the 1964-1968 TV show of the same name. It could land on water, on an aircraft carrier, or on a runway ashore. It launched from and returned to its mother sub, the Seaview.
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Here is the submarine from the 1978 novel Aquarius Mission by Martin Caidin. The movie version was designed by Harper Goff, a movie prop man I’ll mention again later. You’ve got to love the many windows, and the bubble window on top. It didn’t go underwater, but was miniaturized and injected into a human body. In the book and movie, the submarine was known as Proteus, but in the 1968-1970 cartoon it was known as Voyager. Most will recall the submarine from the 1966 film, and Isaac Asimov novel Fantastic Voyage. Herbert took the name of his fictional vessel from the submarine built by John Holland for the Fenians in 1881. The Fenian Ram is a nuclear-powered “subtug” that sneaks into the underwater oil fields of enemy countries, pumps out the valuable oil, and tows it back home. The novel is intense, and focuses on the psychologies of the characters, and how the submarine setting affects them. This is the submarine from Frank Herbert’s 1956 novel The Drag on in the Sea (also published as Under Pressure). Here’s my list of the 7 best science fiction submarines: Does (or will) the submarine in this fiction work stand the test of time? Can you recall details of the submarine and the story years later? Was the depiction of the submarine aesthetically pleasing? Did the plot of the story require a submarine at all, or would the story have worked if set aboard a different kind of vessel? How much more advanced was the submarine when compared to typical submarines of the era in which the work was produced (not necessarily the time of the story)? How detailed was the description, or how thoroughly was it depicted on screen? Did the audience form a clear mental picture of the sub? To choose the best of these, I considered these criteria: (M) Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (M) Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (B) Under Pressure or The Dragon in the Sea I included the Red October as a SF sub because of its advanced “caterpillar drive.” Name The list includes those from books, movies, TV shows, and some Anime.

Earth’s ocean, or oceans in general, are not common settings in SF, and I really enjoy such stories when I come across them.īefore I reveal the list of the seven best, here’s my chronologically ordered list of the more prominent submarines of science fiction. As a former submariner and current science fiction writer, I’m fascinated by the submarines of SF. My recent experience moderating a panel on Science Fiction submarines at Chessiecon inspired this blog post.
