Friday Night Videos
While he is a bit heavy-handed in his rant against George Lucas, this 15-minute slideshow/lecture by Canadian SF author Robert J. Sawyer is an extremely interesting overview of the history of the Science Fiction genre in general, and how it has always excelled at discussing hot-button political topics — racism, war, segregation, women’s rights — perhaps better than any other genre:
The full lecture can be found here at TVO’s website, or you can listen to the full 40-minute MP3. Better yet, subscribe to TVO’s Big Ideas podcast. I didn’t know even about it till now.
(Thanks, Evan!)
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