tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post9109548277153139311..comments2024-03-27T19:24:05.285-05:00Comments on Stupefying Stories Magazine: Notes towards a manifesto • 5~brbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-72760115430785578332021-06-16T12:04:07.374-05:002021-06-16T12:04:07.374-05:00amended: ...and an enormous amount of new content ...amended: ...and an enormous amount of new content was being published, by people who didn't know from science fiction but knew how to package and market product that looked <i>enough</i> like science fiction that it filled up the shelves in all the big chain bookstores and made the inventory numbers spin like the reels in a slot machine.<br /><br />For example, remember Laser Books? ~brbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-72198912342210137682021-06-16T07:52:11.439-05:002021-06-16T07:52:11.439-05:00That tracks. By 1980 the juggernaut that was Star ...That tracks. By 1980 the juggernaut that was <i>Star Wars</i> had hit the market, publishers who had been ignoring SF/F readers for years suddenly rushed in to get a piece of that Star Wars action, and enormous amounts of new content were being published. I suppose it's only natural that Sturgeon's Law took effect with a vengeance. ~brbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-48417192630718633612021-06-16T07:18:12.866-05:002021-06-16T07:18:12.866-05:00I remember people saying that the 1970s were the l...I remember people saying that the 1970s were the last time you could still read everything in the genre, that everyone in the field had read both <b>The Mote in God's Eye</b> and <b>The Dispossessed</b>. By the 1980s that was no longer true.Lawrence Personhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493681072688769205noreply@blogger.com