by Jerry Travis and Josephine Mayes
The phenomenal success of SciFi Channel's Battlestar Galactica, Dune and Children of Dune have demonstrated that today's audience is sophisticated. We want profound and realistic life experiences, original adventures (the new BSG has very little to do with the old), new story lines and new question to explore. Discussions about intense social issues, or even God, are no longer taboo (e.g. Robert Sawyer’s...
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