“I’ve loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I’ve read quite extensively as an adult. About three or four years ago, I decided to reacquaint myself with literary science-fiction and I went back and read everything from H.G. Wells to the new guys, Neal Stephenson and Rudy Rucker and those guys, and what I was surprised to find was that I’d read so much of it…
“But a lot of my old favorites I thought really held up, I liked [Robert] Heinlein and [Philip K.] Dick and Cordwainer Smith and Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Sheckley — the funny guys, the guys who have a sense of humor.”
–Matt Groening, interviewed by Brian Doherty in Mother Jones (March/April 1999)
That’s the opening to this Locus review of Groening’s hilarious, albeit canceled, show. It was too smart for it’s target audience.
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