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Science Fiction Television M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
In a sense, television is a very appropriate medium for science fiction. While TV technology pervades and impacts human life, it is only fair for this medium to make room for a genre that often explores the pervasive impact of technology on human life. Indeed, beginning in the early 1950s with shows such as Tales of Tomorrow and Tom Corhett, Space Cadet, and continuing into the early twenty-first century with Star Trek: Enterprise and Star gate: SGl, television has made science fiction something of a programming staple. M. Keith Booker's Science Fiction Television offers a chronological overview of the dominant series broadcast in the United States and Britain. Though Booker touches on the historical contexts in which these programs were first viewed, the volume primarily introduces readers to the programs themselves by summarizing key episodes and sketching main characters.
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