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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Invasion of the Space Nazis, the final battle
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 17:29:38 EDT
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concerning the sky-fie space opera V, Brad asks, "How can so much money
be spent and nobody be asked?" how to write a good SF story?
Easy: It was done in Hollywood! 
I'm sure that the people involved in V think that sci-fi starts and
ends in hollywood, that all the BEM movies ever made are typical of the
genre, that the only sf literature ever produced are novelizations
of old movies. In other words, they don't know about Asimov, Heinlein,
Clarke, Campbell, and all the others on the honor roll, they've
never heard of Astounding or F&SF, and they likely think that
they're the first ones to ever come up with the "Food of the Gods"
concept.
   What can you expect from the industry that gave us "The Eye Creatures"?
   They're right, you know: sci-fi DID start in hollywood, and will hope-
fully end there. Forry Ackerman lives out in that neck of the woods, I
beleive, and he invented the term "sci-fi" (taken from "hi-fi")
to label the type of stuff coming out in movies at the time: pseudo-
science-fiction done by amateurs masquerading as film producers,
who knew nothing of the vast body of work that they were ignoring.

-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll