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Originally Posted by crich70
I think part of the reason Religion is a genre that is doing well now is that it is the start of a new millennium and as such people are looking for answers to their problems etc. more than in recent decades.
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That's a cyclical phenomenon... it went on a lot before the end of the last millennium, too.
A lot of these numbers can reflect popularity in other media as well, for example, right now SF isn't big in movies (despite the ever-popular adventure movies that usually have SF elements), but spikes in SF movie popularity, such as the period immediately following Star Wars, also saw literary SF spikes. We may see another spike if Promethius does well in the box office and other SF movies try to ride that wave.