Guest Writer: Groshan Fabiola
In 1977, Star Wars reintroduced the world to the serialized space opera with groundbreaking results both creatively and financially. In the wake of this paradigm shift came a gaggle of embarrassing me-too projects both for film and television. Then there was Battlestar Galactica.
Battlestar Galactica was the brain-child of producer/writer/director Glen Larson. It [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2007’
How Battlestar Galactica saved Science Fiction
Is the Fight for Recognition Over?
“Because, to most people, it seemed lurid, fantastic and nonsensical trash, science fiction’s fans have tended to be a bit defensive in their attitude.”
– John W. Campbell, Jr., “Concerning Science Fiction”
I know that within my lifetime, the popular view of science fiction has changed for a lot of people. These days, TV Guide dedicates an [...]
The Great SF Debate
Back in 1941, Robert A. Heinlein proposed the initials “SF,” which at the time was a common abbreviation for “science fiction.” But he had another idea. He felt it should stand for the broader term “speculative fiction.” To this day, there are passionate debates about which term to use.
Is is all semantics? Here’s what I [...]
Alien Thoughts
“The alien is the creation of a need — man’s need to designate something that is genuinely outside himself, something that is truly non man, that has no initial relation to man except for the fact that it has no relation …. it is through learning to relate to the alien that man has learned [...]
