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Early SciFi: The Television That Ate Our Brains - And Shaped Our Lives

Source: The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Aug 25, 2009

Summary

Science fiction started with novels and pulps, but mass consumption of the genre truly began when spaceships, aliens, time travel, and preternatural events invaded the small screen.

From Flash Gordon and the Twilight Zone, to Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly, science fiction television has crept into our brains. And it's influenced millions of people to pursue strange, incredible dreams like piloting a ship to the Moon, or building a physics experiment big enough to detect the Higgs boson.