4. Almost all the major SF from 968-1977 grappled with race/gender/sexuality: Le Guin, Disch, Delany himself, Russ, Tiptree, many more
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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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6. For literary SF writers like Delany 1st Star Wars movie was both one step forward but two steps back.
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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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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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@journeymanhisto For writers of hard SF, distinguishing feature is commitment to working within known laws of science. Heinlein, Asimov.
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@journeymanhisto Well, I actually think the hard SF people overstate their rationality. There is a lot of snobbery in these distinctions.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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