"But if we accept that SF is struggling as a literary genre because of a combination of the shift towards blockbusters-as-adaptation impacting the tie-in market, having caught up with the grim future predicted in lauded sci-fi of decades past, and the rise of new genres and subgenres drawing away the educated, persistent, high-volume readers who constitute SF’s core readership then there remains two final questions: can we save SF and should we?"
@MLClark
That's sad to hear but maybe it needs to go underground and get weird again. Demographically, "adults aged 30-45, above average wealth and education" buy the books but chasing sales never leads to quality art. Running the opposite direction might actually save it. A proud antithesis to pop-blockbuster schlock. So bizarre that screenplays would be impossible👍
YES! BRING BACK THE MADE-IN-YOUR-BASEMENT SFF FANZINES! I want weird screeds from random anonymous authors, patched together with bizarre cult stories and haunting collage art. Print run of "however many we can do before the coloured paper and staples run out". 😉
