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Originally Posted by jehane
I'm disturbed by the number of posters cheering the supposed death of a genre. Just because *you* don't enjoy reading a particular genre (whatever that may be - romance, science fiction, mystery, literary, etc) doesn't mean it is without worth. I read widely across most genres (I confess that westerns have never held my interest) and found that Sturgeon's Law holds up pretty well. |
my annoyance with particular genres is that publishers are perfectly willing to kill other genres in order to pump/pimp out more titles in the genre du jour.
i'm particularly annoyed with urban fantasy because for all intents and purposes it single-handedly killed off horror, science fiction and (to a somewhat lesser extent) epic fantasy in one fell swoop. those genres are pretty much dead at retail. publishers stopped publishing straight werewolf novels in favor of sexy werewolf chicks with ninja swords. space ships have been replaced by necropolises filled with ghoulies and beasties. vampires have been replaced by sparkly abercrombie models.