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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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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11. Aside from Space Opera, Lucas clearly looked at a lot of comics: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Lee/Kirby's 1960s cosmic epics.
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@HeerJeet Its a movie, you schmuck. It wasn't produced as "based on the novel by..." "In terms of literary SF," Its not in the conversation.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Seriously? Bit of an overstatement. Given that Delany wrote some space operas. More accurate to say they unpacked, reworked them. -
@JustineLavaworm My subsequent tweets (written before I saw this) take up issue. - Show replies
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