OT: Sci-Fi Founders

[Baron Munchausen]

Atrocities said:
Your school english teacher needs to read the Dune series. Once that is done, all the peaces fall into place. Lucas was deeply inspired by dune.

Gene R. said that Star Trek is like a wagon train in space. I always thought he used that anology to sell the show because it really is far more like Forebiddon Planet than any western I have ever seen.

There are also clear references to The Lord of the Rings in Star Wars. Lucas admitted somewhere or other that Obi Wan Kenobi is a Gandalf derivative, for example. And some other SciFi like Asimov's Foundation novels also seem to have influenced him.