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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      5. Lucas was clearly formed by the space opera SF of his 1950s youth and untouched by New Wave SF of late 1960s & early 1970s

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      6. For literary SF writers like Delany 1st Star Wars movie was both one step forward but two steps back.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      7. A step forward because Star Wars, as creak as it looks now, integrated special effects into storytelling with a new verve & plausibility

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      8. Two step backs because Star Wars lacked either the extrapolative rigor of hard SF or the avante garde ambitions of New Wave SF.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      12. The Space Opera tradition Lucas was working in was generally disdained by elite SF writers going back to late 1930s.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      13. In doing Space Opera of real ambition, Lucas was picking on the marginal wing of a marginal genre.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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      14. But in recuperating Space Opera, Lucas has one major and unexpected precursor: Samuel Delany.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014

      15. Delany's work of the late 1960s was pretty boldly Space Opera, with twist of being written in modernist-inflected prose.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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          16. What made Space Opera attractive to Delany was its bold mixture of alien cultures, which evoked multiracial NYC of his youth.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2014
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          17. So Delany in 1977 was the perfect writer to review Star Wars. He had written Space Opera himself & very sensitive to race/gender.

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        1. Valondar‏ @VK_HM 28 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet I wonder if they'll ever make a film of Nova.

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