{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "also me: ok but *working class* 90s-2000s SF was tie-in novels and Stargate tv\nme: I\u2019m not disputing you\nalso me: aw", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169874952233/", "html": "

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kontextmaschine:

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also me: ok but *working class* 90s-2000s SF was tie-in novels and Stargate tv

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me: I\u2019m not disputing you

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also me: aw

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oh did the working class read tie-in novels

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oh absolutely

this is where I sputter something about the midcentury American suburban decentralization and the issues with getting books through non-specialty retailers before Amazon or B&N/Borders (which gets at something broader w/r/t the \u201890s-2000s development of exurban \u201ccategory killer\u201d/\u201danchor\u201d/\u201dbig box\u201d retail)

also where I handwave at the \u201890s figures of Wolf/Dragon Shirt Boy and Dolphin Shirt Girl

but there is something under there, that perhaps tracks with \u201cwe had a computer/the internet because we were comfortable class and that was the enriching future\u201d vs. \u201cbecause my parent raised their class status by becoming an electronic artisan\u201c

reference the User Friendly era where \u201cgeek jobs\u201d were as much \u201cnetwork administration/running the ISP/repair service in Buttfuck, Ohio\u201d as \u201ccoding in SF\u201d

BUT, the interesting follow-up is how Babylon 5/neo-Battlestar Galactica BOTH counted as \u201cworking class\u201d remakes of Star Trek (DS9/TNG), even though the first departed on \u201clet\u2019s take the tedious geopolitics seriously\u201d and the latter \u201clet\u2019s take the fact they\u2019re all Navy enlistees seriously\u201d because in each case it was an abandonment of the easy \u201cbroad middle class\u201d New Frontier optimism we\u2019d carried since the early\u00a0\u201860s

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