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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgan26" data-source="post: 1226493" data-attributes="member: 14341">I wasn’t going to post on this thread mainly because people had said what I felt and there wasn’t a reason for me to reiterate it. But I started reading “The songs of distant earth.” By Arthur C. Clarke and part of his Authors note struck me.“This novel is based on an idea developed almost thirty years ago in a short story of the same name (now in my collection The other side of the sky). However, this version was directly-and negatively-inspired by the recent rash of space-operas on T.V. and movie screen. (Query: what is the opposite of inspiration-expiration?)Please do not misunderstand me: I have enormously enjoyed the best of Star Trek and the Lucas/Spielberg epics, to mention only the most famous examples of the genre. But these works are fantasy, not science fiction….”I just thought that it was interesting that within days of this thread I read this passage./Z</blockquote>