“Comments made that shows like this would never be broadcast by modern TV/Cable networks.”
Yup. Even on FR most of the headlines that have ‘sci-fi’ in them are almost always about some aspect of TV or movies. An actual program with sci-fi authors chewing the fat or discussing crap would be incomprehensibly boring to 99% of people. A shame.
There are internet places were they interview the old authors, Star Ship Sofa is one of them. They interviewed the fairly reclusive and now deceased Jack Vance a few times in recent years.
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The show also makes the important and now no longer understood point that Sci-fi and Science Fiction are not the same things.
Sci-fi is about plot and, lately, special effects. There is ‘science’, but usually there is no rational basis for it (take that out, and there is nothing left). It is also about denigration the entire genre: Star Trek, Star Wars, any horror movie set in the future, etc
Science Fiction is about the human condition with real or possible science involved. Real Science Fiction approaches or is literature, something the poorly educated avoid as boring, contrary to their world view, or beliefs: 2001, Babylon 5, Lord of the Rings (books, but not movies) and anything written by Gene Wolf.