The Voice That Killed Sci Fi As We Knew It

Don’t get me wrong. Science fiction isn’t dead. It’s alive and well, and Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, and many others not quite in their stratosphere are entertaining hundreds of thousands, and often, hundreds of millions worldwide. Written science fiction as was practiced by, say, Robert A. Heinlein? So embarrassingly dead it’s almost not worth mentioning. Did this happen because people aren’t interested in sfnal concepts any more? Hardly. They’re so interested that Optimus Prime is a hou