Yesterday I went to target with my kids to buy some stuff and I went to look at the book section like I always do. To my horror I was amazed… shocked… surprised when I couldn’t find one science fiction tome on the shelves? I have a theory but my guess is that people just don’t read popular science fiction anymore? If they do… I guess they don’t buy it at target.
Angus and Robertson had no more love either
I left target and went to a dedicated ‘book’ store to look for science fiction because I thought what the hell is going on? One, maybe two shelves in the science fiction section and the rest was fantasy? I mean really what’s going on here. You know things are bad when the shelves are littered with Mills and Boon and there is no science fiction. What gives?
Science fiction slowly but surely disappearing of our television sets
It’s a great irony that Australians made Farscape pretty much and we never watched it. Now, Stargate’s disappearing, Red Dwarf can’t get any more love from the BBC… it’s a global conspiracy I tell you.
What can we do about it
Ultimately we have the power, people who made the Farscape miniseries possible (you know who you are). We must do something about this. I don’t what but surely there has to be an answer to the vaporisation of science fiction of our time dilated portals… I mean television sets and bookstores.
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January 8th, 2008 at 4:45 am
That’s a good article you have posted. It’s really sad the way science fiction loses importance of late.