Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person can almost "buy space" on front pages by filing a law suit with the more outrageous charges getting the most coverage, he said...
...Moped"). Or, alternately, the Cliche ("Let's Do It"); it's 2078, after all. As far as I could discern from the production notes, the main plot-line consists of a mad grab by three Human Cliches (or were they Human Puns?)--a Harvard student, a Man/Woman from Outer Space, and a Diabolical Villain with Madison Avenue Experience--for the right to be the last person cloned on Earth, and cloned with a vengeance at that--1000 times, hence the title. A "big push" for conventional sex, which either has been--or is about to be--completely supplanted...
...told that the disco-oriented "Travolta-clone" scene in Act II was equally memorable). And while all of the actors did creditable jobs within the horrible confines of the format, there were a number of unquestionable standouts (at least in Act I): Shipley Munson as the aforementioned squeakyvoiced space-person named Xeno Phobia, Michael Der Manuelian as the slick and sleazy Otto Beolaw, Stephen Hayes as the seductive and slinky Giovanna Dance, and Willy Falk (Betty Won't--get it??)--my personal favorite--as the wacky robot R2E2. (To those actors who undoubtedly stood out in Act II: I offer...
...show lamented the decline in popularity of the pot-boiler technological science fiction that flourished in the '30s, as exemplified by the novels of E.E. "Doc" Smith, from whose "Lensman" books the convention takes its name. Many SF fans seem to look back fondly to this era of "space opera," and resent its being dismissed as "that old Buck Rogers stuff." At the same time, this genre has been revived, updated a bit and popularized by the movie "Star Wars...
Nevertheless, the replacement of "space opera" and technological science fiction by more sociological and humanitarian themes seems to be the main cause of the growth of interest in science fiction among the general public, said Richard Gruen, a fan who traveled from California to attend Boskone. "A story that used to talk about how to build a colony on the moon today would talk about how people manage under those conditions," he said...