I've noticed that a lot of friends of mine that have never read a SF book in their lives are big fans of things like Star Trek NG and Star Wars.
If you look at the SF section of any bookshop, you can see this reflected in what is being stocked, about 25% SF by popular SF authors like Dick and Asimov, 25% fantasy (I think because it's not popular enough to justify it's own section), and 50% SF 'lite' (tv and film tie-ins).
The good news is the SF section is now bigger, and I suspect a lot more popular than it's ever been.
The bad news is that most of the books stocked are not for readers actualy interested in SF.
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Ooops, that should be Airstrip 1 (unless they were dyslexic as well as totalitarian)
Wouldn't it be Airstip 1?
I've noticed that a lot of friends of mine that have never read a SF book in their lives are big fans of things like Star Trek NG and Star Wars.
If you look at the SF section of any bookshop, you can see this reflected in what is being stocked, about 25% SF by popular SF authors like Dick and Asimov, 25% fantasy (I think because it's not popular enough to justify it's own section), and 50% SF 'lite' (tv and film tie-ins).
The good news is the SF section is now bigger, and I suspect a lot more popular than it's ever been.
The bad news is that most of the books stocked are not for readers actualy interested in SF.