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Originally Posted by Manabi
Around a decade ago people started noticing Anthony had some truly disgusting themes in his books: misogyny, rape, pedophilia, etc. That stuff's definitely in his books and people calling attention to it severely damaged Anthony's reputation. No doubt that's a part of why his books aren't talked about much now, and why they aren't widely available.
Basically society changed, decided some of the things in Anthony's books were unacceptable and moved on from him.
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I think it was longer ago than that, in the early 90s his books took a turn, there had been lots of sexual content before then but the portrayal changed. I remember being creeped out a bit by one of the books in his Incarnations of Immortality where he used time travel as a justification for a teenager to hook up with an older man. Then read Firefly which even back then I realized was really abhorrent and never touched anything he wrote again.