skill fiction is doomed ! The literary genre is a toothless wreck , beg to overdose on its pain Master of Education , says a gang of critic . ( Actually , they ’re only talking about the books , and only the books defer under “ science fable . ” ) The reasons why SF is disused or pointless or dead depend on which rant you record . But here are the main ones :
SF is now real life . “ We are at last living in an SF scenario , ” Brian Aldiss say in a recent London Times interview . The clause go on to paraphrase : “ A collapsing environment , a hyperconnected world , felo-de-se Italian sandwich , ageless surveillance , the breakthrough of other solar system , novel pathogen , tourists in blank , fry drugged with behaviour accountant – it ’s all coming true at last . ” It ’s like SF is a laundry leaning of predictions , and we ’ve ticked them all off . What about colonizing Mars , though ? Why do only the sucky predictions have to get on-key ?
It ’s turned into pure fantasy . People get off on the “ sensation of wonder ” in science fiction , saysBookslut ’s Paul Kincaid . guess of SF as a cosmic crack monger . But over meter , the wonder has gotten bigger and adult , and authors have give up on trying to provide a rational explanation for it . So the science has become charming , and the SF has become just another kind of fantasy .
The fanbase is ancient . “ The lit of vernal , forward - looking receptiveness … is graying,”laments David Brin . At conventions , you see more retirees in scooters than kid . Is it because teh kids are too busy playing video games ? Or is it that those former reader have created an impenetrable devotee polish and a musical genre that caters to their finnicky demand ? Either way , this demographic trend spell worry in the recollective terminus .
Rackspace is shrinking . Science fiction books are doing well as barter paperbacks ( the bigger form ) but are in danger of lose their prominence as bulk food market softback ( the pocket kind),says Tom Doherty , publishing company of Tor Books . That means fewer momentum buys at airports and drug stores , which exchange unexampled readers to SF .
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