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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
While I don't agree with your statement at all (and wonder why you don't include novels), could you elaborate your thoughts on this. (Also, did you mean strictly within the SF genre, or in general?)
Thanks.
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SF.
Prior to the 80's and the big paperback boom, many authors wrote for magazines, so you had a lot of short stories and novellas. Even the novels tended to be much, much shorter (I first read Zelazny's Hand of Oberon in serial form in Galaxy magazine back in the mid 70's. The book is less than 200 pages). While SF magazines still exists, and people still do write short stories and novellas, it's has become a much less important and common media. The readership in magazines in general has dropped dramatically over the years.
It's possible that the indie market will allow more writers to publish short stories on Amazon for a buck, but so far I just don't think that it's nearly as important as it once was. That, of course, is subject to change.
Just my opinion.