Cognitive Dissonance and Genre SF in the Age of the Super Model
Saturday, February 28th, 2004Cognitive dissonance is the ripping sound you hear as the two halves of your brain peel away from each other at high speed. Which is just what I heard when I tripped over to scifi.com to check out Ellen Datlow’s original of the week and found “The 25 Sexiest Women in Sci-Fi.”
How did the genre get to the point where SF television shows–the small screen , folks, not even the big screen–can afford a super model while venerable print magazines are losing readers every year and pay the same rates they did fifty years ago?
Best regards,
Alan Lattimore