When I was a kid, I used to like to read science fictions stories up in my treehouse if it was warm or holed up in a corner of my house. Every now and then, I would look up to the sky and imagine that some of the stars up there contained planets studded with life forms and spaceships flitting back and forth between them.
Reading the books, usually borrowed from the library and checked out by the scowling librarian who always suggested something in non-fiction, and the short stories that used to be published in the magazine slicks back in the day, brought science fiction alive in a way that most people today will never experience.
TV and the movies kind of ruined science fiction for me. All that nonsense like "Lost in Space", "ET" and the "Star Wars" movies - which I find ridiculous.
There are people who hear the word ‘sci-fi’ and first think ‘books/magazines.’ Then there are people who first think ‘movies/TV.’ After Star Wars I imagine the movie/TV thinking people really expanded even after all the sci-fi movies and shows up to that point.
There is great science fiction or speculative fiction being written, but it does get drowned out by the movie/TV side much more than the past. Then there is the complete lib wackaddooisation of the written side of things in recent years, making it even more difficult to sift through in order to find something good.
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