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[mrissa]

And here's the second Meme Therapy question I answered: "Is it worth maintaining the thin red line between Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Oh, just guess what the gist of my answer was. C'mon. You can do it. I believe in you.

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[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Fantasy used to sell rather worse than sf; enough so that some people think it wasn't published at all before LOTR was published in the US. SFWA (among others) counted it as a subset of sf.

And if I could figure out why fantasy began to outsell sf, I could probably figure out what other genres and subgenres will take off, and find a way to make money with that knowledge. Lots and lots of money, not pocket change like best-seller advances and royalties.