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The Impossible Has Happened - The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek (Paperback)
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The Impossible Has Happened - The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek (Paperback)
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Loot Price R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
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In May 2017, after waiting over a decade, Star Trek fans worldwide
will be glued to their screens watching the debut of the new
series, Star Trek: Discovery. In this biography, newly released in
paperback, Lance Parkin, author of Aurum's acclaimed Magic Words:
The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, will go in search of the
show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, revealing new and fascinating
facts about both the man and the franchise he created. This book
will reveal how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to
produce 'Hornblower in space' and ended up with 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 will examine some of the great myths and turning points
in the franchise's history, and Roddenberry's particular
contribution to them. He will look at the truth in the view that
the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian and
multi-racial agenda, chart the various attempts to resuscitate the
show during it's wilderness years in the 1970s, explore
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 shed light on the colourful personal life,
self-mythologising and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless
gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
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