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Originally Posted by starrigger
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In my little corner, the SF world, it has become harder and harder for even previously successful midlist authors to keep a decent audience.
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As someone who has been reading SF since the mid 70's, I don't think the issue is so much people reading less, at least people that I know who read, don't read any less. To a certain extent, it's a chicken and egg thing. The number of books that I'm interested in seems to decrease, which means that I have to look in other genres to find books to read. Ever since the 80's, SF has been in a decline, with authors moving into other genres or dropping out of writing entirely. Right now, the SF/F genres seems to be dominated by pseudo romance novel writers, a la Laurell Hamilton. Of course, that style writing has it's own set of fans and appears to be successful, but I think that it drives out the traditional SF writer and their fans.