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It’s hard to believe in the modern age of sheer bombast and explosion filled CG lightshows for their own sake, but not that long ago, the world of science fiction, yes, even that of the American cinema, tended to be devoted to a very different purpose and aesthetic.
Like their low paid visionary scribes from the likes of Welles and Verne in the 1800s to the pulps of the 20’s and 30’s and the edge of current science devotees and aspirationists of the 1950s, the science fiction authors of the 1960s and early 70’s had far more in mind than a cheap hour or two of mindless escapism from an increasingly dreary corporatocratic nightmare world we’ve all come to accept as if it were predestined master rather than an out of control dog to be brought to heel.