"Inside Outer Space : Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft" – edited by Sharon Jarvis (1985)
"For decades, science fiction readers and writers had been regarded by the academic/literary nexus and the media as a bizarre group, aficionados of the subliterate obsessed by the arcane" – Sharon Jarvis
Science fiction in 1985 was a nervous adolescent: brilliant, awkward, self‑conscious, desperate to be taken seriously, and...
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Yesterday, a part of a Swedish "fanfilm", named "Gatekeeper", was shot in Uppsala's old "anatomical theatre" (in a scene involving Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang...
