"hack" writers rather than "name" authors.
The popularity of sci-fi movies and TV

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shows has been of little help to writers of original science fiction, Disch says. Most hit sci-fi movies of recent years have been written "director-writer-producer teams who have dealt with [science fic- tion] as a pool of imagery, tropes, and plots in the public domain, which can be cobbled together as well by one creative team asby another."
Many veteran science-fiction w...