As the summer season begins its annual asteroid shower of otherworldly stories, a list of projects that the Hollywood studios may want to consider:  A girl is born with the mysterious ability to know what any moment in history smelled like.  A strange AM radio discovered in the attic allows young Emma to transport herself into the alternative realities of Doobie Brothers songs.  Banished from the college faculty for his odd experiments, a vengeful professor develops a way to turn himself invisible—but decides to stay visible after people keep accidentally bumping into him.  An obsessed inventor spends years building a time machine that allows him to travel back only the amount of time it took him to build the machine.  A geneticist fearing death uploads his brain to a computer to clone himself, but he mistakenly drops the brain file into the “corporate documents” folder, unleashing a demon with the head of a man and the body of a memo.  Videotape recorders, rotary dial phones, and other forsaken analog electronics devices unite in a plot to undermine the digital revolution.  After a freak electrical storm, a rural farmer’s cellphone is always at 38 percent battery life, no matter how much he uses or charges it.  A psychic who can see further into the future every day becomes a threat when she soon will see how the world will end. Government agents scramble to silence her before she spoils the ending for everyone.  On a mission to save Earth, four astronauts travel 152 million light years through a wormhole, only to wind up back exactly where they started, disappointed but closer friends than before.  Write to Don Steinberg at don.steinberg@wsj.com
Imaginary films: As the summer season arrives, a list of science fiction movies Hollywood somehow missed out on.