![]() ![]() I wish I could find the fan reaction to this essay from back in the 1950s, but Google only returns seven results. …Bester is looking back over what many have called the Golden Age of Science Fiction and burning it down with his blaster. (4) WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE? James Wallace Harris reprints and analyzes Alfred Bester’s vintage analysis of the genre in “Blows Against The Empire: Alfred Bester’s 1953 Critique of Science Fiction” at Classics of Science Fiction (a 2020 post). The network is currently up for sale, which may explain why it was particularly ruthless with its cancellations and downsizing its slate from 19 original scripted series to 11 original scripted series ahead of next fall…. Along with Legacies and Roswell, New Mexico, the teen-focused network said goodbye to Dynasty after five seasons, In The Dark after four seasons, and Batwoman after three seasons. ![]() The CW was hit particularly hard, with nine shows getting chopped in all. Loads of gratitude coming for fans and cast and crew in future tweets. “It’s the Red Wedding at WBTV/CW today,” tweeted showrunner Julie Plec, whose CW shows Legacies and Roswell, New Mexico were both among the carnage. Per TV Guide, 17 broadcast television shows were officially given the axe by their respective networks yesterday. In the ever-changing television landscape, this past Thursday was a particularly tough time to be a broadcast television show. It will feel like that if you watched sff on CW. “Everything on Broadcast TV Just Got Canceled” Vanity Fair declared yesterday. Yes, this is the plot of the new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but it’s also the plot of my 2001 Star Trek Novel, “Do Comets Dream?” which is itself vaguely adapted from a tale told in my Inquestor series, “The Comet That Cried for Its Mother”, originally published in AMAZING…. The only way to save the planet is to find a way to communicate with the comet, and it turns out that the key is to sing to it a folk song from someone’s homeworld…. Presently, they discover that the comet is alive, and has some kind of intelligence. The Enterprise discovers that a comet is hurtling toward a planet that doesn’t have warp drive and whose civilization they cannot interfere with because of the prime directive. Somtow Sucharitkul tells Facebook readers why a recent Star Trek episode rang a bell. ![]()
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