The Impossible Has Happened (ePub)
The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
(Sprache: Englisch)
A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world's most successful science fiction franchise.
This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce "Hornblower in space" -and ended up with Star Trek, an...
This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce "Hornblower in space" -and ended up with Star Trek, an...
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A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world's most successful science fiction franchise.
This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce "Hornblower in space" -and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity's future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise's history, and Roddenberry's particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry's initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce "Hornblower in space" -and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity's future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise's history, and Roddenberry's particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry's initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
Autoren-Porträt von Lance Parkin
LANCE PARKIN is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, most notably Doctor Who. He is an Alan Moore completist, having followed the comics maestro's career since the 1970s, and in 2001 he wrote an acclaimed guide to Moore's work, which has since been updated and reissued. In addition to contributing pieces to magazines such as TV Zone, SFX and Doctor Who Magazine, he is also the co-author of Dark Matters, a guide to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. He lives in the USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lance Parkin
- 2022, 390 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Quarto Publishing Group USA
- ISBN-10: 1781314829
- ISBN-13: 9781781314821
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2022
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