181882, "the books marked science fiction are not Posted by imcvspl, Wed Feb-11-15 02:41 PM
"The answer is simple enough, once you see it. The reason why science fiction books are not popular in a society where science fiction is more popular than ever is because the books published, labeled, marketed and sold as science fiction are not.
They are not science fiction.
They are social justice fiction, or chick lit in science fiction drag, or whining experimental deconstructist folderol and tripe, but not science fiction. If DUNE and STARSHIP TROOPERS and CHILDHOOD’S END and FOUNDATION and other novels from four or five decades ago — you heard me! I said decades – are selling better than the most widely reviewed and praised SFF work on the New York Times bestseller list, then the simple answer is that your book is not science fiction, but Herbert, Heinlein, Clarke, and Asimov simply are science fiction.
Likewise with comic books. If you cannot sell a comic where Superman denounces his American citizenship, or Ms Marvel is a Muslim girl, or Batwoman is a Lesbian, or Captain America is shot by a sniper, or Thor is a girl — well, it is because you have stopped telling stories of heroes who fight for truth, justice, and the American Way, and have started telling stories about victims.
Simple as that."
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"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
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