tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post7065697882477223618..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Dying InsideEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-48074828321138749572009-04-15T18:02:00.000-07:002009-04-15T18:02:00.000-07:00Part of the problem is that literarily adventurous...Part of the problem is that literarily adventurous readers too often refuse to read the adventurous fantastic-fiction writers...unless, like Jonathan Lethem, they also write something else, or like Audrey Niffeneggar or Kevin Brockmeier, they don't publish in FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION but in SEEWANEE REVIEW and eventually in THE NEW YORKER. Which is part of why writers such as Thomas Disch and Joanna Russ see their audiences erode, their books fall out of print. Part of why Avram Davidson dies in poverty and Algis Budrys ends up doing almost anything but writing fiction after he hits 30 (even though he does so brilliantly more often than not when he does) and why DYING INSIDE has been a consistent failure as a commercial property.<br /><br />Because the publishers, in playing it Safe in packaging everything in sf as if it was Orson Scott Card or worse, ends up with an audience that wants OS Card or worse. How 'bout that. And everything that is relatively complex as if it has nothing in common with anything that can be tagged sf, no matter how much such, say, F&SF contributors as Ellen Gilchrist and Stuart Dybek might protest otherwise.<br /><br />Makes me wanna holler.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-41667606432183964972009-04-13T16:44:00.000-07:002009-04-13T16:44:00.000-07:00I am woefully uneducated in science fiction except...I am woefully uneducated in science fiction except for some Bradbury, Ursula LeQuin, Heinlein. Who was it that said recently that science fiction writers are smarter than anyone else? That would explain my reluctance to try more.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-80957114522979399192009-04-13T08:28:00.000-07:002009-04-13T08:28:00.000-07:00Scott-I feel inadequate to comment on a lot of cur...Scott-I feel inadequate to comment on a lot of current science fiction because I stopped staying current sometime in the late seventies. Styles changed and they just didn't appeal to me. There are current writers I still read such as Kris Rusch, John Ford and Robert Charles Wilson (among others) but overall I prefer urban fantasy these days.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-3063509848550871652009-04-13T07:44:00.000-07:002009-04-13T07:44:00.000-07:00I will track this one down again, I remember Silve...I will track this one down again, I remember Silverberg's work very fondly and can personally attest now to the gradual breaking down of damned near everything.<BR/><BR/>Harry ShannonHarryhttp://www.harryshannon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-57299110227009446602009-04-13T07:03:00.000-07:002009-04-13T07:03:00.000-07:00I can't help but notice your seemingly wistful tak...I can't help but notice your seemingly wistful take on SF and reading back in the late 60s and early 70s. Am I too far off in inferring that you think that time no longer exists, at least in terms of ground-breaking SF books? If that is the case, why? Is it because we're living in the future that our SF Writer/Ancestors dreamed about?Scott D. Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293540073601809197noreply@blogger.com