The Rapture of Unreason
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
- 6/9/2011
- by Hal Duncan
- Boomtron
Fantasy literature outsells science fiction by a large margin. "It’s true both in Europe and the Us, fantasy outsells science fiction by at least a factor of ten, if not twenty or thirty," says author Gregory Benford. His numbers may be inflated somewhat by the fact that the genre of fantasy is broader and, therefore, typically more difficult to classify than science fiction -- and by the wild, break-out success of fantasy series like Harry Potter. But it's simply an acknowledged fact in the publishing industry that fantasy is more popular than science fiction, and it has been for quite some time. On one recent "all-time" science fiction and fantasy bestseller list, eight of the top ten best-selling authors write mostly fantasy: J.K.
- 6/24/2009
- thetorchonline
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