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Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

Alienating the Audience

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Science Fiction Isn't Political Is It?

There's never been a show with a greater surplus of fully available continuity management people then Star Trek. I think that science fiction tends to be political it doesn't tend to be escapist but the crux of it is is it an engaging story so like the forever war by John Haldeman that's clearly a critique of Vietnam it's also a very engaging story and then I'd say things that are more pertinent to the period we're living in such as gender gender roles sexuality. There's lots of books that I really enjoyed that made that very central to the to the book there's I we've mentioned her before but you've not read Ursula Le Guin am I right in thinking

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