Sci-Fi Savant is DVD Savant's new book, a collection of 116 chronologically sorted reviews, spanning Fritz Lang's Metropolis to James Cameron's Avatar. Director Joe Dante puts it best: "When it comes to classic sci-fi movies it's rare to find much in the way of new insights. But [DVD Savant] ... has gathered together ... a treasure trove of ideas, opinions and research that'll entertain you for hours." To say nothing of its myriad enticing obscurities, including director Abel Gance's The End of the World (1930), an early French talkie; Cosmic Voyage (1936), a Soviet epic about a trip to the moon; and Bertrand Tavernier's Deathwatch (1980), about a popular reality TV show that surreptitiously films people as they die. DVD Talk's own Stuart Galbraith IV recently sat down with the Rondo Award-winning Erickson for a chat. Read what he had to say about the new book, sci-fi films generally, and the genre's trends then and now in the latest DVDTalk interveiw.