It’s a popular cliché that science fiction is just regular fiction…IN SPACE! It certainly doesn’t help that Star Trek was pitched as “Wagon Train…IN SPACE!” and Star Wars is Akira Kurosawa’s “Hidden Fortress…IN SPACE!,” with a couple of effeminate robots thrown in for good measure. But the belief that any story can be turned into […]
I know more than a few people who absolutely refuse to read genre novels that have been out for more than a few decades—if it’s not a new release, it’s just not important to them. I agree that there’s a rush that comes reading from a novel hot off the press, but I personally love […]