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[ SECRET POST #5838 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5838 ⌋

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I feel spoiled having grown up in a time where we had shelves of fantasy novels to buy, TSR was pumping out Forgotten Realms books regularly, there were Ravenloft books even, plus an array of Star Trek Pocket Books, two and sometimes even three new Terry Pratchett novels a year, and even two Doctor Who novels a month (past doctor and New Adventures), as well as innumerable SFF tv shows too. It was a golden age of high fantasy and SF-fantasy. I kinda miss it, and I feel sorry for the kids growing up in our relatively deprived age right now with only grimdark and sparkly vampires for inspiration.

There's more sci-fi and fantasy movies, TV and video games than ever before. And that's what people want. They want movies, TV and video games. They only read books because there wasn't enough movies, TV or video games to keep them happy, and now they have stuff that they like better than books.

NAYRT--I can't tell if you're trolling or just generalizing based on your own experience, and despite pining desperately for new Terry Pratchett books and him being alive and writing at all, I don't agree with AYRT that readers are deprived of new fantasy books.

But as someone who can't do videogames and promptly goes fishing for fanfic for films/tv I love because tv and film don't always let viewers see how the characters think from the inside, that's why I still love books. That and clever wordplay and rhetorical devices and metaphors that just don't translate to film, and a little bit stuff that's just not filmable.

AYRT - I prefer books personally, I just think that most people don't.

AYRT—I may be biased, because I've worked at a library for 20+ years, and while physical media (including book) circulation has gone down a bit since I started, ebooks and e-audiobooks have pretty much taken up the slack.

I'd read more books if authors wrote more stories that I'd like to read.

AYRT—such as? Not being snarky btw, just curious.

I dunno, I'm not an author, I don't know how to make the magic words work. I just know that the current crop of SFF works just leaves me cold. They don't grip me. I'm not generally a fan of urban fantasy, I know that, or first person narration, but on the other hand I loved Rivers of London until the copaganda in it got too much so even that is not a hard and fast rule. I just don't get engaged by the protagonists or buy into most of the premises, they seem so flat and boring right now. I'd like some trad fantasy, maybe, though.

There’s not only grimdark and sparkly vampires for inspiration these days. First off, judging by your examples alone, it sounds like you’ve never left the early 2010s if you think grimdark and sparkly vampires are still a remotely big part of entertainment. Twilight especially hasn’t been a popular juggernaut since a little bit after the last movie came out in 2012. Kids aren’t deprived, they’re just as spoiled as you in different ways. It’s a bit arrogant and self-centered to think kids don’t have good entertainment these days just because it’s different from your tastes, both now and when you were a kid. So many people get to be that arrogant and self-centered when it comes to entertainment changing from their days, and I’ve seen a lot of it as a Gen X’er. From all sides.

SA

On second thought, arrogant might not be the right word for this, and may be too harsh. So disregard that part, I don’t think it fits you. I’ll stick with self-centered, because although that might sound like an insult, I only mean it in a way focused on how you view your interests vs other people’s. Not that you’re a self-centered person in general who only thinks about yourself.

Not just grimdark and sparklpires, there is also the tediously overly-socially conscious broken metaphors masquerading as fiction too.

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