whether its positive or pessimistic we need more real science fiction out there in the market place. period.
other than a handful of established names keeping the faith, much of what passes for 'science fiction' on store shelves isn't much more than fan fiction inspired by the Halo video games. and far too many newer authors would rather write yet another zombie novel than get into the sf field.
imo it's mainly the indies/smaller presses carrying the hard sf genre now and if it weren't for them it would be pretty much dead.
Last edited by xg4bx; 03-31-2012 at 03:32 AM.
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