Re: SF big household names

On Apr 18, 2:34 pm, Silk <gilesof...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> When i started reading SF my local bookshop  was full of  Asimovs and
> Clarkes.Whose name now  represents SF to non fans now that generation
> has passed? Gibson? Ballard?

As fewer and fewer people, as a percentage of the population, read,
most of them are going to be those who come from other media.  Someone
else referred to Speilberg (or is it with a "u" ?),.Lucas, et al.
That will only get worse.

cheers, anyway

oz, whose Venn diagrams of "good", "popular", and "what-I-like"
overlap in strange places