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BUCK ROGERS started a lot of it. There was science-fiction before Buck, and there probably would have been a lot of sci-fi without him, but Buck Rogers turned on a lot of kids to anti-gravity and rayguns and flights to the moon-among them Ray Bradbury, who wrote the introduction to the present mammoth volume of Buck Rogers strips...
...even if we went back now and discovered that Buck was a senile old relative in the sci-fi family-the kind of old uncle that falls asleep over his food and embarrasses evervone when he talks to himself in the movies-even so, we would have to respect him. After...
...members surrounded proctor, asked him to stop, and replugged the equipment. He fi?? relented and walked away...
...point: Stand on Zanzibar may be part of the sci-fi world's response to Dune. It seems like a normal "conjures-up-a-chilling-future" novel. But it is a little bit more...
...nothing is resolved: no governments fall, no aliens invade, no decisions are reached. The universe is insane, and good sci-fi-like Dune and Stand on Zanzibar -is beginning to cope with this. You see . . . you see? It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 lightyears from home...