Comments on: Why Science Fiction Is Dying & Fantasy Fiction Is The Future. http://markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sci-Fi Bookclub http://markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/comment-page-3/#comment-10344 Sci-Fi Bookclub Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:00 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=1627#comment-10344 I hate to say it but I agree with Mark. SF as a separate entity is in trouble... The vast majority of the people who sign up to our bookclub (http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org) are men. And the single most common question we get is 'Why don't you read fantasy?'. I'm glad to support SF in all its forms by setting up the Science Fiction Bookclub (http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org), not because I dislike Fantasy or because I only want to socialise with men (Oh man that would be very boring indeed) but because as a genera its brought so much pleasure to my life and it looks like it could do with a little help at the moment. Reading Fantasy is ReadCrime. I hate to say it but I agree with Mark. SF as a separate entity is in trouble… The vast majority of the people who sign up to our bookclub (http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org) are men. And the single most common question we get is ‘Why don’t you read fantasy?’.

I’m glad to support SF in all its forms by setting up the Science Fiction Bookclub (http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org), not because I dislike Fantasy or because I only want to socialise with men (Oh man that would be very boring indeed) but because as a genera its brought so much pleasure to my life and it looks like it could do with a little help at the moment.

Reading Fantasy is ReadCrime.

]]> By: SF Signal: 'The Death of Science Fiction' as Mythogenic Rejuvenation (Part One) http://markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/comment-page-3/#comment-8531 SF Signal: 'The Death of Science Fiction' as Mythogenic Rejuvenation (Part One) Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:05:57 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=1627#comment-8531 [...] that it was more of a killing than just SF expiring. Mark Charan Newton just weeks before that defended this idea at length, arguing further that the specific genre was dying, while other sorts of fantastika were doing [...] [...] that it was more of a killing than just SF expiring. Mark Charan Newton just weeks before that defended this idea at length, arguing further that the specific genre was dying, while other sorts of fantastika were doing [...]

]]> By: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the battle for “New Myth” « One Last Sketch http://markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/comment-page-3/#comment-6331 Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the battle for “New Myth” « One Last Sketch Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:17:18 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=1627#comment-6331 [...] writers seem intent on hurling some battle-cries as well.  Provocative statements such as “[w]hy science fiction is dying and fantasy is the future”, for instance, kicked up quite a [...] [...] writers seem intent on hurling some battle-cries as well.  Provocative statements such as “[w]hy science fiction is dying and fantasy is the future”, for instance, kicked up quite a [...]

]]> By: Napalmerski http://markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/comment-page-3/#comment-6281 Napalmerski Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:18:13 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=1627#comment-6281 Well, it is now february 2011. The movie situation has changed: Avatar and Inception have struck a massive blow for Science Fiction in both the talking space squids and Philip K. Dick senses. As predicted by Ben, the gothical penis envy fascination with supernatural metrosexuals shows no signs of abating. Are science fiction proper sales up now, dragged up by Avatar and Inception? Anyone - figures? And about authors leeching sales from science fiction by absorbtion of its plot elements: those pointed out by Ben are responsible for like 0.1% of the phenomenon, I mean - their sales are not even statistically significant. Now the bigger boys, with the 300 - 400 millions sales to their names, like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton - these are the real culprits:D They are the ones who take our precious alien invaders/friends and super technologies and time travel and... By the way, anyone notice that there is now in many places on the web a separate romance sub-genre: "time travel romance?" Curioser and curioser. N Well, it is now february 2011. The movie situation has changed: Avatar and Inception have struck a massive blow for Science Fiction in both the talking space squids and Philip K. Dick senses. As predicted by Ben, the gothical penis envy fascination with supernatural metrosexuals shows no signs of abating.
Are science fiction proper sales up now, dragged up by Avatar and Inception? Anyone – figures?
And about authors leeching sales from science fiction by absorbtion of its plot elements: those pointed out by Ben are responsible for like 0.1% of the phenomenon, I mean – their sales are not even statistically significant. Now the bigger boys, with the 300 – 400 millions sales to their names, like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton – these are the real culprits:D They are the ones who take our precious alien invaders/friends and super technologies and time travel and… By the way, anyone notice that there is now in many places on the web a separate romance sub-genre: “time travel romance?” Curioser and curioser.
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