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’The geeks have inherited the Earth’, wrote Sandy Starr in these pages recently, arguing that adolescent-minded, sci-fi nerds have colonised popular culture - as witnessed in the popularity of the Marvel comics, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television programme and the Lord of the Rings films. Like my fellow (but infinitely more erudite) sci-fi enthusiast, Starr, I have mixed feelings about this development.
I finally saw the last instalment of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings on Saturday. (...)