Today's idle thought is that I wish creating new works to tap into nostalgia and pay tribute to classic forms was as big in books as it is music and tv/cinema.

I am down with this sidestep

Those numbers in particular are very helpful, thank you

I think I've read on your blog before that the first sci-fi courses in university were in the 1950s, right? Makes sense that fantasy is still a way behind, although I'm a little surprised it's still that far.

Sorry to bug you @shaunduke.bsky.social but I've heard people talking about the decline of sci-fi as a book genre in terms of popularity & sales and wanted to know if it was actually true. I've read some history of fantasy books that say sci-fi declined in the 80s as fantasy took off - is that true?

I have 200 subscribers on my blog - and actually noticed it happening this time! Big day.

Rereading Eddings reminds me of how much I dislike writing where people assume the other person is gonna want to fight about it so they get in the first lick.

No Bea, if I knew how it worked I wouldn't get confused. And no matter how many times i learn it, I always go and forget it again.

Some day I'll figure out how century naming works

Thanks for the share! I hurt my arm recently and haven't been able to draw and it's driving me crazy 😵‍💫