Thread: What 20th Century Writers do you think will still be read 100 years from now?
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:51 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
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).
What a horrible world to contemplate. No reading? No authors?
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