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Re: Dystopias, Disasters and other Futurescapes
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From: Lynn Rutan <lynnrutan_at_charter.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:46:43 -0400
Thanks everyone for your suggestions - I appreciate them! I do think I need to rephrase my question though. My initial post was SO long I probably got you all lost ;-)
My question is more a why? Why are we getting so much dystopian and so little of the themes that dominate adult science fiction? Are the authors not writing it. do publishers think there is no market? Are we as librarians and teachers generally more comfortable with a near future that is fairly familiar in the dystopias?
Lynn
Received on Thu 05 Aug 2010 06:46:43 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:46:43 -0400
Thanks everyone for your suggestions - I appreciate them! I do think I need to rephrase my question though. My initial post was SO long I probably got you all lost ;-)
My question is more a why? Why are we getting so much dystopian and so little of the themes that dominate adult science fiction? Are the authors not writing it. do publishers think there is no market? Are we as librarians and teachers generally more comfortable with a near future that is fairly familiar in the dystopias?
Lynn
Received on Thu 05 Aug 2010 06:46:43 PM CDT
