On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Negative Burn wrote:

>       Is it just me, or has science fiction suddenly become the next craze.
> It seems to me that each year there are more and more science fiction
> movies out there.

The puzzle is perhaps not why there are so many more people going to so
many more science fiction movies, as why so many fewer people are reading
science fiction. I know sf writers who are really _struggling_ to get
published now, whose books were snapped up by publishers ten years ago. I
know that the answer is partly tied up with changes in publishing: but why
isn't the _market_ for books apparently there?

I have my own answers, but I would be interested in hearing what other
people think! I ask the question from the UK; but I think it is equally
applicable to the USA.

Edward James


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Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, READING RG6 6AA, UK

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Editor, FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
Director of Studies, MA in Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media

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