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What's on the way out? What's new and hot?
THE_ANGRY_GAMER:
Dystopia certainly seems to be in vogue thanks to The Hunger Games, and teen romance has really exploded in the past five years. I think Urban Fantasy is riding that wave - while many readers will only want to read the Paranormal Romance sub-genre, I think a lot of people will be moving on to other forms of UF.
jeno:
What I think is interesting is that there seem to be two tracks for genre fiction right now. There are the slower trends going on in the main genres, like Fantasy and Sci Fi with their currently popular subgenres of low fantasy, urban fantasy and dsytopias. And then there's the stuff that's going on in sf/f YA, which cycles through trends a LOT faster than 'mainstream' genre publishing.
ex: I remember listening to a podcast from a big author, Patrick Rothfuss, I think, where he wondered if the next new, relatively unexplored Thing in genre fiction would be angels. But all I could think was, Really? Didn't angels cycle in and out of popularity 2-3 years ago?
And they did. It had just happened in YA sf/f. The current boom for dystopias started in YA, too. The first steampunk novel I saw with lots of presence in book stores was Leviathan, another YA.
What I wonder is if the mini cycles happening in YA correspond to the broader trends that will eventually happen in mainstream sf/f, just at a faster publishing pace.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 17, 2012, 05:33:11 PM ---What about the coming Jim Butcher steampunk series?
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I'll certainly be giving it a try, though with a mite of wistfulness about Jim having picked this project over other non-Dresden projects he has alluded to at one point or another that sounded more to my tastes. Fwiw, Codex Alera did not do much for me, particularly the later volumes.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 17, 2012, 07:18:52 PM ---I'll certainly be giving it a try, though with a mite of wistfulness about Jim having picked this project over other non-Dresden projects he has alluded to at one point or another that sounded more to my tastes. Fwiw, Codex Alera did not do much for me, particularly the later volumes.
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To each their own; Ive never actually read any Steampunk, but love it in concept. You seem to trend more towards the Sci-fi side of things if Im not mistaken, so I can see why youd have preferred the Space Marshall thing he'd mentioned. (Thats what you're referring to, correct?)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 17, 2012, 08:29:34 PM ---To each their own; Ive never actually read any Steampunk, but love it in concept.
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Most of it breaks my suspension of disbelief on perpetual-motion-machine grounds.
--- Quote ---You seem to trend more towards the Sci-fi side of things if Im not mistaken, so I can see why youd have preferred the Space Marshall thing he'd mentioned. (Thats what you're referring to, correct?)
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That or the other high fantasy he also mentioned at one point.
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