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Writing Research
This led to the thought: superhero as deity/modern myth.
Charlie’s Diary: Let’s put the future behind us: “The audience I’m talking about is today’s successor to the traditional SF readers of yore. They’re smart, not brilliantly well socialized because their energies have been going elsewhere, and they increasingly self-identify as geeks. We are competing for their attention time with computer games, video, the internet, and fuck-knows-what new bleeding edge media that haven’t made it our event horizon of self-absorption yet: anime, manga, machinima, your guess is as good as mine. They don’t, yet, have a separate section in the bookstore, but they know what they like to read and they get it from the fringes of the mainstream and the edges of the genre and the core of the slipstream. And their time is coming. If you’re a writer and you still want to be in business in something vaguely resembling SF in thirty years time, study them.”
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