:-) I don't know if anyone's going to be reading me in 50 years, and it's relatively low on the list of things I worry about, too.
I'm skeptical Gibson will be read in 50 years -- I suspect anyone writing computer-themed SF is going to seem awfully quaint by then. (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
Who will be read who's being published today? Larry McMurtry, if only because of Lonesome Dove. Terry Pratchett. John D. MacDonald isn't publishing today, technically, but people will still be reading him in 2051. Based on my children's response to Harry Potter (never mind the rest of the world's) J.K. Rowling will still be read in fifty years.
Finally, Ray Bradbury. New novel out at 80. He's my hero.
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:-) I don't know if anyone's going to be reading me in 50 years, and it's relatively low on the list of things I worry about, too.
I'm skeptical Gibson will be read in 50 years -- I suspect anyone writing computer-themed SF is going to seem awfully quaint by then. (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
Who will be read who's being published today? Larry McMurtry, if only because of Lonesome Dove. Terry Pratchett. John D. MacDonald isn't publishing today, technically, but people will still be reading him in 2051. Based on my children's response to Harry Potter (never mind the rest of the world's) J.K. Rowling will still be read in fifty years.
Finally, Ray Bradbury. New novel out at 80. He's my hero.