Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel…

Harlan Ellison
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up! ✨ Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang. Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.
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