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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Really? That's a pretty big shift in demographics over the last 10 years or so. When I first became aware of them it was mostly scifi books so I would guess it at mainly young males. I suppose that explains why there's no skinhead or hell's angels books floating around.
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Over the last 10 years there's been a lot more publication of the back catalog of the scifi genre, not just the Old Masters of it, IMO, because OOP scifi writers started showing up on the Dark Net. I would come across authors there that I had never heard of before, because I had never seen their names on books when I was perusing the SciFi section of Borders or B&N. People were in raptures because they could finally get new copies of favorite books that had worn out from being read and re-read. As the years have gone by, I now see those authors turning up in reprints.
I'm sure we all have favorite authors whose works we try to keep alive by at least word-of-mouth, if not by anything else. Authors always give homage to earlier writers who influenced them; it's good that the potential future scifi writers are now getting more exposed to the broad historical range of the genre, and learn that there is more to it than Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, et al (not to knock that crew at all, BTW
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