Strange Stars Quotes

“Parliament’s Mothership Connection, on the other hand, projected its concerns onto the cosmos. By combining elements of funk, glam, and prog into a space-fixated hybrid, the album redefined the bond between sci-fi and popular music. Few of Parliament’s rock ‘n’ roll peers could keep up. One rock band, though, was about to renew and expand what it meant to make sci-fi music. They weren’t from the predictable hot spots of England, Germany, or the United States. They hailed from Canada.”
― Jason Heller, Strange Stars: How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music

“He gathered these notes into a synopsis he called Journal of the Whills; in it, a young man named CJ Thorpe becomes apprenticed to a master named Mace Windy, hoping to learn the esoteric ways of a corps of space-commandos known as the Jedi-Bendu.”
― Jason Heller, Strange Stars: How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music