Comments on: SF Signal

By: Blue Tyson

Blue Tyson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:08:14 +0000

I’d give Doctorow and Stross a better than even money shot at surviving that scenario, in some form. ;-)

By: David S.

David S. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:29:31 +0000

In twenty years? It is impossible to know if we will read in a post-Singularity world, let alone who or what we might read. Presumably our AI overlords will tell us when the time comes, and I for one welcome their input.

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:38:56 +0000

A question I want to ponder for a while is not ‘who are tomorrow’s genre stars’, but ‘who will still be being read in twenty years’?

Or, indeed, “who has been writing for twenty years and is still doing good work?” Let’s not let our neophilia get *too* carried away …

By: Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:09:21 +0000

That’s something I would never take bets on. There are writers who were extremely active early on in their careers–eg Lucius Shepard. Then he wrote very little for about five years and then started producing stories and novellas again like nobody’s business.

Bruce McAllister has had three bursts of creativity over his career so far-and in between hasn’t published anything for about five years.

Stuff happens.