Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Star Wars is indeed Science Fiction - (nf) Message-ID: <11700021@ea.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 19:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.11700021 Posted: Sun Aug 5 19:46:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 00:59:14 EDT References: <223@sri-arpa.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-22300:ea:11700021:000:461 Nf-From: ea!mwm Aug 5 18:46:00 1984 #R:sri-arpa:-22300:ea:11700021:000:461 ea!mwm Aug 5 18:46:00 1984 Star Wars NOT science fiction? Not good science fiction, yes, but it is most definitely science fiction. Check out "Space Opera", edited by Brian W. Aldiss. SW fits that mold nearly perfectly. It isn't very good space opera, but that's another tale. As for "a long time ago" being an argument for SW to not be science fiction, I'd like to know when science fiction was changed so that it had to happen in the future (or even had to happen to humans!).