The Five Marks of Clintonian Science Fiction

When the movie Independence Day aired in theaters in summer 1996, audiences always cheered when aliens blew up the White House. Finally a journalist asked the White House Press Secretary about this strange audience response, and he replied that people were cheering because "they knew that the president had gotten to safety." The 1990s Clinton Era was a strangely science fictional time, an era when the President insisted that Camp David receive the SciFi Channel and White House press conferences dealt with Will Smith movies. With the possibility that another Clinton will be in the White House this year, it's time to go back through the mists of time to contemplate the five biggest themes in Clintonian scifi, or scifi created during the first Clinton's regime. We've laid it all out for you. More »