Big Ideas and Bigger Risks – 1979 Changed SciFi Forever!
Big Ideas and Bigger Risks – 1979 Changed SciFi Forever! By the end of the 1970s, science fiction had been officially mainstreamed. Star Wars (1977) proved that space battles and strange creatures could break box office records and reshape pop culture. Close Encounters of the Third Kind suggested that aliens might not want to destroy us—they might just want to say hello. But by 1979, something shifted. Sci-fi didn’t just […]
