What Do You Think?

I found this comment on another blog yesterday, and with the author's permission, repeated it here. If you have any thoughts on the subject, please click the comments link below to share.


Why is publishing of science fiction in such doldrums? Science fiction movies still do well. Fantasy fiction still seems to be doing reasonably well. In an age when everyone spends a fortune on cell phones, i-pods, and high speed Internet, it seems that books pondering the impact of new technologies would be a positive boon, helping us to mediate future shock.

One of my students voiced a theory I hope isn't true. She said that readers today are overwhelmingly female and these readers, by percentage, prefer relationship literature. Males are still into tech and science, but simply do not read. Science fiction as a written genre is thus fading away leaving film and TV science fiction undisturbed.

What do you think?

What are you favorite 2009 science fiction books?

Are you a member of any science fiction fan community such as Amazon or Good Reads?