On Goodreads: The Gamification of Reading Is Changing How We Approach Books

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What authors have written both fiction and non-fiction on the same subject?

Mark Twain

James Comey

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Lots of kids in very booky households read books for adults when they are 9 to 15 yo. Some younger.
Some kids also learn to read very early (Hyperlexia). Only some are autistic (many are otherwise normal), but it might be more common with autism.
Hyperlexia is really just a catch-all label for anyone reading competently before age 5 and youngest seems to be slightly younger than two. It could be a more common ability than detected as most kids under 5 might not have the environment.

Sounds like me. I can’t remember learning to read - I was reading competently before starting primary school. Funnily enough, I don’t remember either of my parents reading with me although they must have, it was my decidedly non-bookish paternal grandmother. In my family, it was my father who read compulsively; my memories of him are him sitting at the table in the bay window, cigarette in one hand, book in the other, with a pack of cigarettes and pot of coffee beside him.

I hasten to say I don’t share his taste in literature - he liked WWII fiction.

[JSWolf]

Books where there is no non-fiction book witht he same title from the same author do not need to treat us like we are stupid by adding A Novel to the title. It's rather insulting to think we don't know when a book is a novel.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What authors have written both fiction and non-fiction on the same subject?

Dozens...hundreds?

A lot of authors have written both novels about crime and "true crime" books (e.g., Ann Rule, James Patterson, Douglas Preston). Parts of Preston's non-fiction book The Monster of Florence were incorporated into the Pendergast novels.

Asimov wrote a ton of non-fiction science books. He even wrote a science fiction short story ("The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline") based on his own doctorial dissertation. The story was even formatted to look like a research paper.

David Gerrold wrote a book tilted The Trouble With Tribbles that was non-fiction, despite having written a fictional story/screenplay with the exact same title.

William Goldman's Tinsel was a novel about show business, and he had several non-fiction books about the same topic.

AI pioneer Marvin Minsky partnered with Harry Harrison on the fictional The Turing Option.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The novel White Shark was soon renamed to Creature as to not case confusion.

Actually, they renamed it Creature to capitalize on the miniseries.

Other then that, that's it.

Frank Herbert wrote Dune after working on an (unpublished) article about Oregon's sand dunes.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What authors have written both fiction and non-fiction on the same subject?

Asimov? Well known for both sides.

And there are many others.

And there are some that I thought came from a Science side...Had me fooled (that one hangs out here )

[shalym]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What authors have written both fiction and non-fiction on the same subject?

Isaac Asimov, for one...

Shari

[issybird]

...and Bernard Cornwell.

[issybird]

C'mon, peoples! Please don't engage. It's just more to clean up.

[kyteflyer]

Ben Bova, IIRC.

[ZodWallop]

Weren't there a couple of long posts where the poster sang the praises of the gamification of reading? I was going to engage, but they are gone?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Weren't there a couple of long posts where the poster sang the praises of the gamification of reading? I was going to engage, but they are gone?

That was a spammer. Their first post was obviously AI-generated; their second post was a spam.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

That was a spammer. Their first post was obviously AI-generated; their second post was a spam.

Ah. I scanned them without reading in depth (they were too long). Which is why I was going to come back later.