Rightwise born kings: feudalism and republicanism in science fiction. From: Extrapolation | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Ravenwood, Emily | COPYRIGHT 2005 Extrapolation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the summer of 1999, science fiction author David Brin wrote a scathing critique of the Star Wars movies. He roundly berated George Lucas for telling a traditional hero story centered around "the whole Nietzschian Ubermensch thing: the notion--pervading a great many myths and legends--that a good yarn has to be about demigods who are bigger, badder and better than normal folk by several orders of magnitude ... super-beings deciding the fate of billions without ever pausing to con...

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