[LMB] Science fiction dying out?

[Katrina Allis]

On 04/12/2007, Becca Price <becca_price at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>

I've noticed that more and more sf is ending up in the general fiction
sections of some stores, especially with young adult.  It's not that it's
not there, it's that it's become more mainstream and is now shelved as
such.

Of course, that could just be the bookstores I tend to patronise...

Katrina