Most science fiction is just lazy writing about current pop-culture trends, or stories gleaned from other areas of fiction. It is a difficult genre to navigate

Most science fiction is just lazy writing about current pop-culture trends, or stories gleaned from other areas of fiction. It is a difficult genre to navigate for quality... George Lucas was considered a genius for "allegedly" copying this film scene-for-scene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress https://archive.org/details/the-hidden-fortress https://archive.org/details/the-hidden-fortress (1960*, Akira Kurosawa) The original film was entertaining, and still worth a gander... unlike the poorly generated article =3