I Still Love You, Buckaroo Banzai
Who is *your* fictional hero?
At a friend’s house in 1985, I saw a new VHS tape version of a movie I had no idea had come out the year before: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. That movie and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy changed my life. I didn’t know that science fiction could be funny. And as a child growing up in a humorless religious home, I nee…
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