Adventure Rocketship! Let's All Go To The Science Fiction Disco by Jonathan Wright

Author:Jonathan Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Popular music, Geek culture
ISBN: 9781908039224
Publisher: Wizard's Tower Press
Published: 2013-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

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- NK Jemisin -

Scene: I’m watching reruns of an old kids’ cartoon I used to love: The Jetsons. I grew up wanting to take a flying car to school because of this show. It’s the 21st century and there are no flying cars. What the hell is up with that? So disappointing.

But I watch the show now, as an adult, and I notice something: there’s nobody even slightly brown in the Jetsons’ world. Even the family android sounds white. This is supposed to be the real world’s future, right? Albeit in silly, humorous form. Thing is, not-white-people make up most of the world’s population, now as well as back in the 1960s when the show was created. So what happened to all those people, in the minds of this show’s creators? Are they down beneath the clouds, where the Jetsons never go? Was there an apocalypse, or maybe a pogrom? Was there a memo?

I’m watching The Jetsons, and it’s creeping me right the fuck out.

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