News for May 16, 2002

The American Prospect: Star Wars, LOTR and Luddites.

5/16/02, 6:59 pm EST - Tehanu

Interesting article from Chris: ".When it comes to the relationship between the fantasy and sci-fi genres and worries about technology, there's a huge elephant in the room. So huge, in fact, that it's some half a million words long. The novel in question, in case you hadn't guessed, is J.R.R. Tolkien's 1954-55 fantasy romance The Lord of the Rings..." [More]