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    If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?

    Does The Internet Mean The Death Of Print, Again?
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    Image of VisibleHand VisibleHand
    11/24/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Well, no, I probably wouldn't. Certainly I jumped ship on the Anita Blake books after they made the transition.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Probably not, no.
    -Kle.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    I think the mere thought of Neil Gaiman porn has had a profound effect on my personality and soul. I'm not sure if I am now a man for the better.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    As my College Science Fiction Writing Professor, Phyllis Eisenstein once told me, "On one ever went hungry writing Harlequin Romances, and scifi authors do them better than anyone else."
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Depends. Writing, or performing?

    Cause, you know, if both genres are taking a hit...
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    I doubt some of my top authors (*cough* Orson Card) will expand into the gay porn with which I tend to occupy myself. Neil Gaiman on the other hand...
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    Image of golddiggersof2033 golddiggersof2033
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    I didn't even read the article (yet) but Yes.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    No. I have the internet for porn.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    McAuley could just delve a little deeper into the creepy relationship between Sri Hong-Owena and her son in "The Quiet War." I bet there are several disturbing stories there that somebody would pay for.

    Not me though.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Some of us wayward youth read Silverberg for the porn while he was still writing SF...
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    11/23/09

    @Chuck:
    Hear hear!
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Scalzi-penned porn I'd probably go for.

    Stephenson....probably not. I don't need 900 page erotica with footnotes and a mathematical proof at the end.

    And as we speak, William Gibson is gearing up for this by going through his earlier stuff and doing a "neon" find/replace with "boobs."
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    11/23/09

    @finite_elephant: If it was Gibson, there wouldn't be any -actual- porn, just an ever present "essence" of porn, implied by the white space in the narrative...
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    I think a lot of authors will fish out the young adult manuscript most writers I know have stashed under their beds. Publishers are always looking for the next Harry Potter knock-off.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Just what I'd need, Orson Scott Card writing bland breeder porn involving temple garments and gay bashing.

    Although, if Neil Gaimen ever wrote porn I'd read it religiously and you can bet it'd still win several awards.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    I assume they will turn to teenage-girl-targeting-vampire-novels.... they seem to sell quiet well....
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    11/23/09

    @FrankN.Stein: The line between those and soft-core porn is already pretty faint...
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Why does everyone act like science fiction is on death's doorstep? So, the big publishers fall... so what? There are plenty of small publishers out there (I should know, I'm one of them), still publishing science fiction. If the big magazines go away, there will always been smaller ones to go to. The Internet makes it possible to disseminate stories to the far corners of the Earth, without a publisher.

    As the oft-quoted Mark Twain saying goes, in my bastardized version: Reports of the death of science fiction have been greatly exaggerated.
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