{"id":13357,"date":"2010-08-31T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13357"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T17:49:21","slug":"found-1970s-interview-with-rod-serling-talks-science-fiction-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/found-1970s-interview-with-rod-serling-talks-science-fiction-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: 1970s Interview with Rod Serling. Talks Science Fiction. Inspiring."},"content":{"rendered":"

In the following University of Kansas professor James Gunn interviewed Rod Serling about science fiction in literature. It is incredible and inspiring to hear a creator show true humility and deference to the works of science fiction.<\/p>\n

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I think the networks have traditionally and almost ritualistically short-changed the science fiction audience both qualitatively and quantitatively<\/a>. I don’t think…they’ve given the proper respect to science fiction as a legitimate area of literary attempt. Number one, I think, first of all, it’s a high level literary form and number two I think it’s much more than a small coterie of loyal viewers who’ve read Amazing Stories and want to go on. <\/p>\n

I think it’s a sizable group, particular amongst the young. Because we live in a society which is so technologically improved and which is so scientifically orientated now that indeed this is simply a reflection of the time around us now. –Rod Serling<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is refreshing to see a creator genuinely interested in making good stories and being brutally honest about his own work. This is such a stark contrast to the bulk of creators popular today that seem to believe the sun rises and sets on their “awesome <\/a>film-making abilities<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

As you’ve no doubt noticed, we’ve placed the interview above the cut and combined them into a playlist for easy viewing.<\/p>\n

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Cause, see, I love science fiction, but I’m an aficionado, not a contributor, and I say this, you know, with no stupid, dumb, dumb humility at all. I’m am purely a Johnny-come-lately. I am perhaps the least scientifically knowledgeable man in the whole writing group, and I bow with great deference and respect to the real masters<\/a>, you know, Asimov and Bob Heinlein and Sturgeon and all the rest of them. And these, of course, and yourself included, because you write pure science fiction. I can adapt science fiction I think quite adequately, but I can’t create it on an original level.–Rod Serling<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In the following University of Kansas professor James Gunn interviewed Rod Serling about science fiction in literature. It is incredible and inspiring to hear a creator show true humility and deference to the works of science fiction. I think the networks have traditionally and almost ritualistically short-changed the science fiction audience both qualitatively and quantitatively. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47,52,72],"tags":[3191,3189,103,875,346,3193,390,1406,3190,473,3192],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-interviews","category-just-freaking-neat","category-tee-vee","tag-science-fiction-in-literature","tag-1970s","tag-awesome","tag-born-in-the-70s","tag-found","tag-incredible","tag-inspiration","tag-lost-and-found","tag-rod-serling","tag-science-ficition","tag-university-of-kansas-professor-james-gunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15156,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}