![]() He spurred hard for a low overhang of rim-rock. Pass at Eagle Gulch, a tiny gold colony 400 miles north of Hoofs drumming, Bat Durston came galloping down through the narrow “Youĭon't know it, but this is your last space trip.” “Get back from thoseĬontrols, Bat Durston,” the tall stranger lipped thinly. Proton gun-blaster in a space-tanned hand. That point, a tall, lean spaceman stepped out of the tail assembly, He cut out his super-hyper-drive for the landing. Jets blasting, Bat Durston came screeching down through theĪtmosphere of Bbllzznaj, a tiny planet seven billion light yearsįrom Sol. An ad that ran on the back cover of the early issues had the following copy: You The science fiction magazine Galaxy Science Fiction, first published in 1950, attempted to achieve some distance between its stories and Space Opera, and indeed advertised itself in this respect. (Remember that Gene Roddenberry originally sold Star Trek to the networks as “Wagon Train to the stars”). Inescapable since both forms are romantic melodramas, differing primarily in setting and not in tone. Noon in space – the genre has always been considered quite unrefined.īut the relationship between the pulp Western and Space Opera is With the notable exceptions of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love (1973), and Peter Hyam's Outland (1981) – which is literally High Space Westerns have a long and, frankly, undistinguished history. Which consists of just 14 episodes and one movie.ĭescribing Firefly as “genre busting”, as some have done, is quite misleading. This is the settingįor Joss Whedon's short-lived TV series Firefly, Out a living doing whatever jobs come their way. Travels, crewed by a band of misfit outlaws and renegades, on the runįrom both the Alliance and various criminal syndicates, trying to eke Between theseĭiverse planets, the Firefly-class ship Serenity Struggling to get by with what little they have. United States and China – controls the core worlds, where itsĬitizens live in affluence with a wealth of technology, while farįrom the civilised centre are frontier worlds: barely habitable, InĪnother solar system, the Alliance – a political merger of the Centuries into the future, and mankind has spread into space.
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