This is good good stuff. I feel much the same about robots. There's something unique about them that lets them serve both as mirrors to humanity, and also as kind of our conceptual descendants/creations.
I don't think we can ever count on TV for really revolutionary speculative fiction stories, though. It's too much of an Industry. Too much money being poured into something with too many rich people who have the veto over it.
It's not like book publishing doesn't involve a lot of work, but 1: a lot more diversity in the staff there, 2: we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, but not millions and these days 3: a lot more options in terms of indie publishing and small publishing houses that are willing--or specifically exist to--cater to audiences outside mainstream.
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Date: 2018-12-16 09:56 pm (UTC)I don't think we can ever count on TV for really revolutionary speculative fiction stories, though. It's too much of an Industry. Too much money being poured into something with too many rich people who have the veto over it.
It's not like book publishing doesn't involve a lot of work, but 1: a lot more diversity in the staff there, 2: we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, but not millions and these days 3: a lot more options in terms of indie publishing and small publishing houses that are willing--or specifically exist to--cater to audiences outside mainstream.