I don't think you're off your rocker, although I'm not sure just how much society's sense of well-being plays into this. It's long fascinated me that the fiction world of SF/F tends to swing on a pendulum. Even in Tolkien's day, it was doing that; I think about what happened with the Star Wars era, and I see it again.
Swing to fantasy: King Arthur is suddenly the rage. Swing to SF: Star War, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, you name it. Swing to Fantasy: Tolkien movies, C. S. Lewis, Harry Potter.
I have no doubt it's going to swing back to SF again soon; again, I'm not really sure why, except that (my own bias showing here) people in our culture tend to go, "oh, THAT idea is so last year" and run in the opposite direction, thinking that they're being original and clever.
Wow, that came out sounded a lot more jaded than I intended. :D Anyway, there be my not-really-useful two cents!
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Date: 2008-05-19 07:53 pm (UTC)Swing to fantasy: King Arthur is suddenly the rage.
Swing to SF: Star War, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, you name it.
Swing to Fantasy: Tolkien movies, C. S. Lewis, Harry Potter.
I have no doubt it's going to swing back to SF again soon; again, I'm not really sure why, except that (my own bias showing here) people in our culture tend to go, "oh, THAT idea is so last year" and run in the opposite direction, thinking that they're being original and clever.
Wow, that came out sounded a lot more jaded than I intended. :D Anyway, there be my not-really-useful two cents!