ideas.4brad.com | by brad | Mon, Jul 13
Mon, Jul 13
Moore began the journey by laying out a manifesto of how he wanted to change TV SF. He wrote an essay about Naturalistic Science Fiction where he outlined some great goals and promises, which I will summarize here, in a slightly different order
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