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Originally posted by troutman@Sep 8 2004, 11:56 AM
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Science Fiction seems more popular to me than ever.
Now science fiction appears on the verge of getting beamed up to the great Enterprise in the sky, with sci-fi writers concerned that they are facing the unique irony of looking at a future where their writing could be a thing of the past.
"Science fiction is facing a crisis of confidence," sniffed last month's Popular Science magazine in an article entitled Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? "
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Oof--silly gaff in the article: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 411? I think that's off by 40 degrees.
Otherwise, an interesting piece. I have to wonder whether much of it is really a decline in science-fiction, or simply the genre moving to a new medium: television and movie theatres are chalk-full of science-fiction pieces, and suprisingly, not all of them are crappy. I haven't read much science-fiction lately, but I get the sense that the genre is becoming more about stories and plots and less about cultural change, which is what is used to be about. I think that science fiction is just going through a lull. Someone will find a way to revitalize it the way that Harry Potter has repopularized fantasy.