
The 1970s were a golden age of science fiction. After the free-wheeling, freethinking 1960s, the world took a more cynical view of the future and broke open the relatively untouched genre of dystopia. You may think the epitome of 1970s sci-fi is Star Wars: A New Hope, but that was only a response to earlier sci-fi works like Westworld, Rollerball, and Soylent Green.