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Sunday Reading: The Allure of Science Fiction

Sunday Reading: The Allure of Science Fiction In the mid-seventies, when the screenwriter and director George Lucas was attempting to sell movie studios an idea he had about a space odyssey, even his friends thought the concept was a bit far-fetched. “What’s this thing called a Wookiee?” a fellow-screenwriter recalled Lucas’s friends wondering. “What’s a…

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The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem

The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem “The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality. In his autobiographical essay “Chance and Order,” which appeared in The New Yorker, in 1984, Lem recalls how as an only child growing up in Lvov, Poland, he…

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