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Moejoe · 11-12-2009, 04:33 PM

I honestly don't believe we'll be reading books in one hundred years time, and those that do will be a tiny minority. The concept of the author will be dead and everyone will create in real time by interaction. If anything of 'our' time remains it will not be the names of dead authors, but the characters they created. Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, Spenser etc (and especially those who have made the transition into film/games and become popular there in the interim).

11-12-2009, 04:33 PM	#27
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	I honestly don't believe we'll be reading books in one hundred years time, and those that do will be a tiny minority. The concept of the author will be dead and everyone will create in real time by interaction. If anything of 'our' time remains it will not be the names of dead authors, but the characters they created. Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, Spenser etc (and especially those who have made the transition into film/games and become popular there in the interim).