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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?
    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 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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    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?
    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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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    if it meant getting rid of all the fantasy crap, and reviving the SF branch of SciFi (I'm sorry, should
    I have meant to say Siffy?), then great, let it blow up.
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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 long as my favorite authors don't star in pr0n then I'm okay with it. People gotta eat. My scriptwriter friend paid his bills writing softcore porn.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Will it at least be Sci-Fi porn?
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    Image of dsmeek36 dsmeek36
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: i had three pages of seriously hot sex, and i was advised to take it out. is it sci-fi if the one guy is a clone? :)
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    11/23/09

    @dsmeek36: That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

    [www.imdb.com]
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    Image of Kishi Kishi
    11/23/09

    In reply to If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?
    Depends on which authors we're talking about. I mean, I don't really want Harry Turtledove writing what porn might be like if the Roman Empire had never fallen...

    (Probably.)
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    11/23/09

    @Kishi: Turtledove would have at least one more devoted follower if he did. I'm just saying.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/23/09

    @Kishi: I don't know, I think the Vestal Virgins are just asking to be turned into a porn novelization. Not that I ever think about such things of course...
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    11/23/09

    @Kishi: This just reminds me how disappointed I was in ROMA by Silverberg.
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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 say it's about bloody time these hoity toity sci-fi writers got of their collective bums and started being useful members of society. Swanning around in their dressing gowns chewing on pencils all day. Some of us have real jobs where we have to be up by 1pm and spend hours every night slaving away in theaters and venues watching everything from dance, opera, rock & roll to theater & movies. I bet your average sci-fi writer wouldn't last 10 minutes in my world.

    and to answer another of Charlie Janes sex laden questions: yes.

    Charlie, are you and Annalee planning on opening a sci-fi/fantasy porn shop and are using io9 for concept testing ?
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