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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."
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.
@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...
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.
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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-Kle.
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Cause, you know, if both genres are taking a hit...
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Not me though.
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Hear hear!
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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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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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As the oft-quoted Mark Twain saying goes, in my bastardized version: Reports of the death of science fiction have been greatly exaggerated.