Doug Kaufmann - posted on January 30, 2010 18:01

Did you ever see the movie, Back to the Future? In the final scene,
Michael J. Fox’s screen father, George McFly, played by Crispin Glover,
morphed from a nerdy mixed-up, immature character into a very
levelheaded, conservative businessman. He responds to the doorbell and
accepts his newest book from the delivery man and opens it to
everyone’s delight. That was in 1985 and, during that time, I too
wanted to be a levelheaded businessman who wrote books. Not about
science fiction, as McFly did, but about “science faction” as I called
it then. My science was factual and I had seen it work for over a
decade when Back to the Future came onto the scene.
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