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...unfair. The music industry is nothing like it was forty years ago (this is beyond common knowledge), and the mass-manufacture model which came into effect in the 1960s when it became clear that shipping 1,000,000 albums from one printing across the world was no longer science fiction??that model was never limited to albums. Leo Fender realized in the mid-fifties that, hey, he could take a block of wood and screw some hardware to it and kids in their garages in Peoria, Illinois could learn to play the guitar. And the effect? Today...
This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction??especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...
...Morgan herself is a testament to science fiction??s path into the mainstream. More into fantasy than science fiction, she was reluctant to make broad generalizations about science fiction, saying she didn’t “feel quite enough in touch with the world of science fiction?? to do so, though she said she is “decidedly a part...
...media driven” world for the rise in the genre’s popularity. Though she said the reading population was dropping, science fiction has expanded with ease into other mediums. Computer and video games, graphic novels and manga have repackaged many of science fiction??s themes for a younger, modern audience...
Featuring many exciting twists and a wildly surprising ending, To The Stars is considered one of the great classics of science fiction??s “Golden Age.” A long-time devotee of Hubbard’s work, Chick was particularly intrigued by To The Stars. After reading it numerous times and finding inspiration in a scene in which the ship’s captain plays “strange and haunting“ notes from an antique piano, he began to write down his musical musing and soon the new album (described...