The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek

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Synopsis
A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world’s most successful science fiction franchise.This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce “Hornblower in space” —and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity’s future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world.Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise’s history, and Roddenberry’s particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry’s initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
390 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781781314821
Related ISBNs:
9781781314470
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Lance Parkin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Bookshare Staff
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