"As Heller notes, it's striking that several of the very first magazines containing rock criticism were launched by figures who came out of the s.f. fanzine scene. Later, music papers like NME would regularly profile writers like J.G. Ballard. Science fiction and rock both have an association with youth culture. While some stick with either or both for their whole lives, fanatical involvement is generally associated with adolescence and the early twenties. That super-intense seriousness—seeing s.f. or rock as a world-transformative force, or as a world unto itself—is an overestimation you're supposed to grow out of."
Simon Reynolds at 4Columns reviews Jason Heller's Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded.
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