As you may already have heard, Games Workshop is claiming to own the rights to the words "space marine" as a trademark, despite the fact that it has been in common parlance in the science fiction community since at least 1936, including usage by E. E. "Doc" Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson and David F. Weber in some of the classics of our ( Read more... )

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Historically, there is a tendency to overvalue the average merit of past works, because we only KNOW of the BEST past works. To take my own specialty, I have read some really great Interwar science fiction stories. Since I began producing and ( Read more... )