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INTRODUCTION By David Brin
INTRODUCTION By Matthew Woodring Stover
OPENING STATEMENTS
FOR THE PROSECUTION: David Brin
FOR THE DEFENSE: Matthew Woodring Stover
CHARGE #1: THE POLITICS OF STAR WARS ARE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC AND ELITIST
FOR THE DEFENSE: Keith R. A. DeCandido
CHARGE #2: WHILE CLAIMING MYTHIC SIGNIFICANCE, STAR WARS PORTRAYS NO ADMIRABLE RELIGIOUS OR ETHICAL
FOR THE PROSECUTION: John C. Wright
FOR THE DEFENSE: Scott Lynch
CHARGE #3: STAR WARS NOVELS ARE POOR SUBSTITUTES FOR REAL SCIENCE FICTION AND ARE DRIVING REAL SF OF
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Lou Anders
FOR THE DEFENSE: Laura Resnick
FOR THE DEFENSE: Karen Traviss
FOR THE DEFENSE: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CHARGE #4: SCIENCE FICTION FILMMAKING HAS BEEN REDUCED BY STAR WARS TO POORLY WRITTEN SPECIAL EFFECT
FOR THE PROSECUTION: John G. Hemry
FOR THE DEFENSE: Bruce Bethke
CHARGE #5: STAR WARS HAS DUMBED DOWN THE PERCEPTION OF SCIENCE FICTION IN THE POPULAR IMAGINATION
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Tanya Huff
FOR THE DEFENSE: Richard Garfinkle
CHARGE #6: STAR WARS PRETENDS TO BE SCIENCE FICTION, BUT IS REALLY FANTASY
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Ken Wharton
FOR THE DEFENSE: Robert A. Metzger
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Bruce Bethke
FOR THE DEFENSE: Adam Roberts
CHARGE #7: WOMEN IN STAR WARS ARE PORTRAYED AS FUNDAMENTALLY WEAK
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Jeanne Cavelos
FOR THE DEFENSE: Bill Spangler
CHARGE #8: THE PLOT HOLES AND LOGICAL GAPS IN STAR WARS MAKE IT ILL-SUITED FOR AN INTELLIGENT VIEWER
FOR THE PROSECUTION: Nick Mamatas
FOR THE DEFENSE: Don DeBrandt
CLOSING STATEMENTS
THE VERDICT
That answer is: You've already bought a book whose whole purpose is to discuss meaning and consequen
In Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, author Mary Henderson elaborates how much inspiration George Lucas
Oh, you do hear some messages of conformity and intolerance, but these fill the mouths of moustache-
George Lucas defends his elitist view, telling the New York Times, "That's sort of why I say a benev
All right then, I'll hold back on my little plot gimmick-the Darth Vader twist-that (in my humble op
Having half a dozen rants on Star Wars'
In the classic Salon.com article on Star Wars-an article that was written in June 1999-David Brin im
James Gunn expands on this notion in his essay "The Tinsel Screen"
But it was a single line of a conversation with the LucasArts content manager that really lured me i
Along with the fiction, the [sf] culture grew more sophisticated along the way, but it retained a pr
... electronic media brings science fiction to its audience free of Science Fiction Culture, the his
the book-buying public. Book sales expand every year from one to 5%, a phenomenal and consistent rat
Fiction markets have expanded. In 2004 alone, 2,550 books "of interest to the SF field" were publish
But I'm a barbarian. Of the 1,417 original SF books published last year,'
Because I had been burned before, I read the opening few pages, and a section out of the middle. And
Why do I want barbarians in the Science Fiction Village? Forget that they're my kith and kin. Think
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