Re: RARA-AVIS: Genre Fiction Will Die!

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 30 Jun 2008


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net < DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> "Readers of old-fashioned genre fiction will die off,
> and the next
> generation will have so many different entertainment
> options that it's
> hard to envision the same level of loyalty to brand-name
> formula fiction
> coming off the conveyor belt every year. The novelists who
> are truly
> novel will thrive; the rest will struggle."
>
> Am I the only one who finds this asertion ridiculous?
>
I agree it's farfetched, and it also strikes me as a bleak place to live. How's that noir for you?

Ed

      



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