hmmmm cowperson, sounds like those lazarus long books heinlein wrote.
seriously, i am a huge sci-fi buff, have read (for the sake of argument) <1% of what's out there, and there is plent of originality and new ideas all the time.
if sci-fi were, say, the steel industry or something, i could take this argument with a grain of salt.
it is individually produced and individually read. if there's trends in buying, well unfortunately for the publishers, the author can't re-tool their thinking like record producers re-tool original acts into nickle-creed.
it will survive but as soon as people start group-thinking their creative effort to a large degree, it has all been over for awhile.
they keep writing and i keep buying, what exactly is the problem here?
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