1. Since people are talking Star Wars & race, worth revisiting this 1977 essay by Samuel Delany: http://samueldelany.tumblr.com/post/82806452407/samuel-delany-reviews-the-first-star-wars-movie …
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9. In terms of literary SF, Star Wars belonged to a tradition that had been disdained since the 1930s by genre elite: the space opera.
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10. The literary lineage of Star Wars is in E.E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark series, in Planet Stories, in Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett.
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