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Originally Posted by nana77
Imho there is a line between copying, and making an appreciation to another author.
Severeal years ago there has been many of those "appreciations", e.g. in SF there were themes that would have become common, or machines that one "build" on a novel, and lately others "copied" by including them on their stories. That happened also into the music.
That's certainly - imho - an human interpretation, of a work started by someone else, olso often it was really an appreciation to that, but that ofc is something made within a counsciousness. Otherwhise I don't know how that wouldn't be just business.
As a consumer I won't point fingers at all, I'd just won't buy if not enhanched by.
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Just finished the intro where it's mentioned about (and it's from the '70s): the editor is explaining a part of the SF's story, and it classifies/separates interesting operas from what's call mass by-product or
mainstream, that in his opinion has always existed and always will exist: every 10 novels (in SF in this case) that came out, one of them is an
adult, authentic work; he says "you can go on a library and see that for every good title there are derivate shoddies".
From ten of those authentic, adult novels ones, five will be not successfull tries, or just not mature/adult, two or three will be attempts just on an above step from the commercialism, saved by a good idea or a nice prompt. Will remain a pair, from that selection, which will be interesting, authentic sf.
And sf is a genre where (editor's consideration) on dozens and dozens of thousands writtings in 40 years (the intro is from the '70s, as previously mentioned), not more that 500 or 600 did reached artistic levels, 100's are indisputable mastepieces.
And sf is a genre that, compared to the mainstream, did offered a copious amount of those very good writtings on a that short time (40 years in this case). Out of the sf genre, he asks, how many operas can bear the wear of the time? One hundred, to be generous (on a mass production of 100000 each year).
It's a concrete proof that, other than sf being a complete literature, so often the mainstream - within its noble exceptions - acts as a child, won't become adult, plays within the words and the sentiments and within the facts, and collapses any time more on ideas' crisis, of sentiments, and styles.