Science Fiction, R.I.P.

lars and to endless narratizations of the adolescent role-playingrngame "Dungeons and Dragons." The rocketships, space aliens,rnand other paraphernalia are still on hand, but the impoverishedrnsensibility of the mass audience has banished everything else.rnConsider last summer's Independence Day, which raked inrnbig bucks and has since acquired cult . . .