Over at Locus Online, there's been an interesting
Roundtable on Genre Accessibility, which asks if contemporary science fiction has the capacity to cross over to a mass audience. I disagree with the implicit premise here which seems to be contemporary speculative fiction is not appealing to a mass audience. Have these people been to a bookstore, the movies, or turned on the TV lately? Have they ever heard of Harry Potter or the Twilight series or the Hunger Games trilogy? Or George R.R. Martin's
A Song of Ice and Fire or Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series? I could go on and on. Of course, some of you might argue my examples are more fantasy than SF, and this is mostly true, but I could also name SF recent hits, like Cormack McCarthy's
The Road. As I said, it's an interesting article; check it out.
Some speculative fiction that is very accessible can be found in our recent issue of Electric Spec. For example,
Check them out, too! :)
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SF and fantasy seem to switch places every so often. For a while it was Star Wars/Trek and others, now fantasy is big.
In time SF will be back in the mainstream and fantasy will be put into the background again. All it takes is a couple of hit movies.
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