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There’s a renaissance of smart, original science fiction happening in movie theaters. If only the box-office receipts were as impressive. While entertaining space operas like Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy rack up the cash, sci-fi films that tend toward the intellectual — about mankind’s dealings with androids, aliens and technology — just aren’t clicking with mainstream audiences … Not all audiences embrace every kind of sci-fi, according to Lisa Yaszek, professor of science-fiction studies at Georgia Tech. Star Wars movies in particular represent a branch that focuses on humans being the center of the world: “They have more universal challenges. This is very much about the struggles between fathers and sons, quests for love and justice,” she says. 

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