RetroBlog: Star Wars and Me

Star Wars and Me

[I wrote this in 2005, but it's still pretty meaningful to me.:]

Sometimes I think about what it would have been like to have been a science fiction fan back in the 1950s and '60s. I like the idea of the genre being so small that you can take for granted that you and all your geek friends have read the same books, and can thus talk about them as a shared experience. Back then, it seems, science fiction fandom was quieter, more niche. You could imagine that...