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Originally Posted by xg4bx
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.
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Sounds like your issue is more with the publishers than the genre or the authors.
Or maybe the place you buy your books? I dunno.
Me, I see no significant shortage in the SF arena; the established authors keep rolling along with the same output they've always put out and new notables seem to be popping up as frequently as for the past few decades. If the bandwagon followers are stampeding towards a new fad, I don't see that as terribly bad (Sturgeon's Law, again). The other traditional genres seem to be doing well enough; I don't see much moaning there.
One thing I do know; urban fantasy existed and prospered long before twilight and the current fad, just as juvenile fantasies predated and survived Potter-mania. And the current publisher fad seems to be more a matter of YA variants of existing genres than anything else, which isn't necessarily bad either; drawing in young readers can hardly be a bad thing, however it is done.
The only place I've noticed any real shift is at the B&M storefronts and those are hardly representative of industry trends anymore.