tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post6838189349559792373..comments2024-02-15T05:38:08.148-08:00Comments on Sympathy for the Moon: Mundane SFDavidKThorpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04215770376688861114noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post-13120762207715497942007-06-21T07:21:00.000-07:002007-06-21T07:21:00.000-07:00Ah, ok. Apologies. Having just come across the ter...Ah, ok. Apologies. Having just come across the term I couldn't tell if it had just been created for this ish of InterZone or if it had a wider currency as a publishers' sub-genre. You've cleared that up for me, thanks.DavidKThorpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04215770376688861114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post-33851609799501601302007-06-21T04:55:00.000-07:002007-06-21T04:55:00.000-07:00Well, for one issue of a subscription magazine (ie...Well, for one issue of a subscription magazine (ie captive audience) after all the other obvious labels have been thought of by thousands of other people who have spent lifetimes thinking up such, it'll probably do for now, don't you think? At least it's short and unmistakable and annoys all the right people. <BR/><BR/>I'll leave the issue of "shifting many titles" to the experts who are in the business of doing that sort of thing, since they are subject to no other priorities whatsoever -- that's the key to their success. It's best not to make ones requirements so limited that you end up doing nothing.goatchurchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08654835665007009341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post-75237108311064166742007-06-21T00:57:00.000-07:002007-06-21T00:57:00.000-07:00So it's a contemptuous tag from the hardcore Sf fa...So it's a contemptuous tag from the hardcore Sf fans rather than a selling tag for the general readership. That's not gonna shift many titles, if you ask me.DavidKThorpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04215770376688861114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post-14061854531181011992007-06-20T16:34:00.000-07:002007-06-20T16:34:00.000-07:00Hard SF could have been the correct term, but it i...Hard SF could have been the correct term, but it is already taken by space opera. <BR/><BR/>"Mundane" is the term SF fans call those who are not SF fans, and who therefore might have the mistaken belief that SF has something to do with Science -- as in what Scientists are these days telling us about. <BR/><BR/>There are some major major big stories which the scientists are <A HREF="http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2675747.ece" REL="nofollow">telling us about, daily</A>, but the genre is too busy playing with its set of baubles to give it any consideration.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/" REL="nofollow">http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/</A>goatchurchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08654835665007009341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14661668.post-22870479966174592302007-06-20T06:09:00.000-07:002007-06-20T06:09:00.000-07:00Yeah, Mundane SF doesn't inspire a lot of confiden...Yeah, Mundane SF doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.<BR/><BR/>When I read the title I thought you were going to start talking about SF stories that were run of the mill or the same as what everyone else is writing.<BR/><BR/>Something snappier like Streetlevel SF or Plainlife SF would be be more inspiring.<BR/><BR/><BR/>WillWilliam Couperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531537963074789728noreply@blogger.com