J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

J. Michael Straczynski

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  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction