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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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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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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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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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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13. In doing Space Opera of real ambition, Lucas was picking on the marginal wing of a marginal genre.
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14. But in recuperating Space Opera, Lucas has one major and unexpected precursor: Samuel Delany.
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@CorComm Yeah, Niven was part of the 1970s Space Opera resurgence (for which Delany deserves a lot of credit, I think).
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