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Thoughts, Count down edition
Aug. 7th, 2014 10:45 amThe count down clock for my departure to Worldcon in Merrie Olde England is at T-minus three days. I have no idea how much I'll post while gone (I am taking my personal laptop) but since I won't be sitting in front of a PC for eight hours, I suspect posting will be light and variable. In the meantime, three thoughts.
1) Teresa Nielson Hayden is being highly reasonable on SF fandom. The tl;dr version is that fandom has always argued about politics.
2) John Scalzi's book Old Man's War is now going to be a TV series. What I want to highlight from that post is this: "Why are your books being made into TV series when better books like [X] and/or writers like [Y] are not? [Scalzi's answer] I don’t know." There is a large random luck / grace of God / X factor in determining commercial and critical success. If it could be predicted and bottled, people would do so, but it can't so they don't.
3) Via another Scalzi link, I am reminded of the wonderful book Emergence. I read it decades ago, but when I was reminded of it, I instantly recalled large chunks of it. Some books stick with you - this one did.
1) Teresa Nielson Hayden is being highly reasonable on SF fandom. The tl;dr version is that fandom has always argued about politics.
2) John Scalzi's book Old Man's War is now going to be a TV series. What I want to highlight from that post is this: "Why are your books being made into TV series when better books like [X] and/or writers like [Y] are not? [Scalzi's answer] I don’t know." There is a large random luck / grace of God / X factor in determining commercial and critical success. If it could be predicted and bottled, people would do so, but it can't so they don't.
3) Via another Scalzi link, I am reminded of the wonderful book Emergence. I read it decades ago, but when I was reminded of it, I instantly recalled large chunks of it. Some books stick with you - this one did.
