"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing"
by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading public were interested in reading science fiction. A perusal of bestseller lists for science fiction shows an even more alarming truth: the science fiction books that do sell are a shrinkingly small number of reprints, classics and novels that had been adapted into movies."
Science Fiction is moving into indie. Fantasy is moving into romance. Neither is going away.
Lynn
"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is >Vanishing" by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading >public were interested in reading science fiction.
In article <uu0gcq$2mqou$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is
Vanishing" by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading
public were interested in reading science fiction.
20 years ago, fantasy had 4 percent of the market and SF 2 pecent.
"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing" by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading public were interested in reading science fiction.˙ A perusal of
bestseller lists for science fiction shows an even more alarming truth:
the science fiction books that do sell are a shrinkingly small number of reprints, classics and novels that had been adapted into movies."
Science Fiction is moving into indie.˙ Fantasy is moving into romance. Neither is going away.
Lynn
In article <uu0gcq$2mqou$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is >>Vanishing" by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading >>public were interested in reading science fiction.
20 years ago, fantasy had 4 percent of the market and SF 2 pecent.
From my limited and subjective perspective, science fiction was always >niche.
Science Fiction is moving into indie. Fantasy is moving into romance. >Neither is going away.
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 07:38:17 -0600, John Savard ><quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
Today, Moore's Law and CRISPR are in the spotlight. So if one wishes
to capture the current imagination... one gets cyberpunk, not classic
SF. The future we see ahead lends itself less well to a literary genre >>having broad appeal, at least to old fogies, even if cyberpunk is >>appreciated by young people.
I dunno - I read and enjoyed Neuromancer (and not just because Gibson
lives in Vancouver as I do) well before I played the game on the Apple
II 35 tears agi,
And most people would consider that one of the early classics of
Cyberpunk. (I was also reading Heinlein's more 'adult' works around
the same time)
In article <uu0gcq$2mqou$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
"Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is
Vanishing" by Simon McNeil
https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/nobody-wants-to-buy-the-future-why-science-fiction-literature-is-vanishing/
"A recent Washington Post article indicated that only 12% of the reading
public were interested in reading science fiction.
20 years ago, fantasy had 4 percent of the market and SF 2 pecent.
On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:28:35 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 07:38:17 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
Today, Moore's Law and CRISPR are in the spotlight. So if one wishes
to capture the current imagination... one gets cyberpunk, not classic
SF. The future we see ahead lends itself less well to a literary genre
having broad appeal, at least to old fogies, even if cyberpunk is
appreciated by young people.
I dunno - I read and enjoyed Neuromancer (and not just because Gibson
lives in Vancouver as I do) well before I played the game on the Apple
II 35 tears agi,
And most people would consider that one of the early classics of
Cyberpunk. (I was also reading Heinlein's more 'adult' works around
the same time)
Hey, I generally never read horror stories - except I enjoy Lovecraft.
And I never read mysteries - except for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes.
So people can enjoy some of the very best cyberpunk even if, in
general, they don't like the genre much.
John Savard
On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:04:09 -0600, John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
So people can enjoy some of the very best cyberpunk even if, inHeck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the
general, they don't like the genre much.
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:04:09 -0600, John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
So people can enjoy some of the very best cyberpunk even if, inHeck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the
general, they don't like the genre much.
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
Heck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:47:06 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
Heck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
I was blown away when I read "Ender's Game" in the magazine, and wanted
to clasp young Ender to my ample bosom and tell him the first rule of strategy: know what you want.
But it turned out that Card had put everything he had into it. I've
very little memory of anything else he wrote -- and, for that matter,
little of "Ender's Game" itself beyond that I was impressed.
On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:51:50 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote in <ujgb2jdnh2atc6o0i5u5pg1rrarc9thcn5@4ax.com>:
On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:47:06 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
Heck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
I was blown away when I read "Ender's Game" in the magazine, and wanted
to clasp young Ender to my ample bosom and tell him the first rule of
strategy: know what you want.
But it turned out that Card had put everything he had into it. I've
very little memory of anything else he wrote -- and, for that matter,
little of "Ender's Game" itself beyond that I was impressed.
I liked the novel. Haven't seen the movie -- is it worth watching?
However, we live in "The Future" now, and some ideas Card wrote about
just don't seem plausible. Such as:
https://xkcd.com/635/
On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:51:50 -0400, Joy Beesonwanted
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote in ><ujgb2jdnh2atc6o0i5u5pg1rrarc9thcn5@4ax.com>:
On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:47:06 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
=20
Heck I even remember being so impressed reading Enders' Game in the=20
original magazine long before Card made a whole series of it.
I was blown away when I read "Ender's Game" in the magazine, and =
to clasp young Ender to my ample bosom and tell him the first rule of
strategy: know what you want.
=20
But it turned out that Card had put everything he had into it. I've
very little memory of anything else he wrote -- and, for that matter,
little of "Ender's Game" itself beyond that I was impressed.
I liked the novel. Haven't seen the movie -- is it worth watching?
However, we live in "The Future" now, and some ideas Card wrote about--=20
just don't seem plausible. Such as:
https://xkcd.com/635/
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