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Julian Bond
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15 Feb 2011
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I was in Forbidden Planet last night and was amazed that the book section seems to have been comp...
I was in Forbidden Planet last night and was amazed that the book section seems to have been completely taken over by Science Fantasy with Science Fiction fading away. And the books out on the edge of the field where the genre fades into slipstream literature have almost completely disappeared. They used to have a section of Anarchic political and music books that's gone. Many of the lesser known cyberpunk authors as well. For instance there wasn't a single John Shirley, only a couple of Di Fillipo and no Lewis Shiner or Lucius Shephard.[1]
What's going on here? Has the future so contracted that nobody can imagine speculatively about ad 2100? Or is the readership retreating into quasi-historical swords and sorcery because the post-millenial world is too grim?
[1]What happens to the ideas in books when they are out of print?
I was in Forbidden Planet last night and was amazed that the book section seems to have been completely taken over by Science Fantasy with Science Fiction fading away. And the books out on the edge of the field where the genre fades into slipstream literature have almost completely disappeared. They used to have a section of Anarchic political and music books that's gone. Many of the lesser known cyberpunk authors as well. For instance there wasn't a single John Shirley, only a couple of Di Fillipo and no Lewis Shiner or Lucius Shephard.[1]
What's going on here? Has the future so contracted that nobody can imagine speculatively about ad 2100? Or is the readership retreating into quasi-historical swords and sorcery because the post-millenial world is too grim?
[1]What happens to the ideas in books when they are out of print?
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