[LMB] Science fiction dying out?

[Becca Price]

> On 12/2/07, Ed Burkhead <edburkhead at insightbb.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I had a long conversation with a used bookstore owner.
> >
> > He asserted that he expected Science Fiction to die out,
> more or less
> > completely, in the next 10-20 years.  That's based on his
> observation that
> > no one under 50 ever, ever, comes in to look at the SF
> section of the
> > store.


These things go in cycles, and right now fantasy is up and SF is
down... I wonder whether this parallels the opinion I get in
general society that science itself is somehow suspect. As we
get more of a rise in belief in the paranormal (in all it's
aspects), fantasy (which plays into this belief) becomes more
popular. Right now, it's hard to find a high school biology
program that emphasizes evolution, which seems to be being
attacked on every hand. (I know- I've got two high school
students, and the dumbed-down stuff they're getting in their
science and biology classes makes me cringe.)

-becca, musing inchoerently


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