Re:Uh, I thought it was just a movie... (Score 1)

That's exactly what the Salon article asserts. The author adds "and not a very good one", and you can agree or disagree. I think the important point is that the author redraws a connection between American popular art (SF novels, mostly) from the early part of the 20th century and the SW franchise, and the principals have had a late tendency to elide that particular provenance. And by the way, nowhere in the article does the author slight pulp SF -- quite the opposite.