Is There a 12-Step Program for Science Fiction Addicts?

First horror, and now this. No wonder why I wasn’t the world’s greatest student.

“Star Wars” (pre-”A New Hope”) 1977 theatrical program book

INTRODUCTION

My Bar-Mitzvah was pending in 1977. I was required to learn the usual Jewish prayers, in Hebrew, to sing aloud to a group of friends and family, most of whom would surely have no idea what I was saying. Or singing.