Often forgotten and unfairly maligned, John Boorman’s foray into science fiction following Deliverance is full of astonishing imagery. — This was first published by the BSFA in a pamphlet called SF Writers on SF Films: from Akira to Zardoz. It’s easy to forget that after the imagined, shiny, optimistic techno-future of the Sixties, exemplified by movies like 2001, the Seventies were in many ways characterised by a creeping cultural…