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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8122738" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Ok, there's two things.</p><p></p><p>Mid-20th century, people didn't read. At least, they certainly didn't read fiction. The idea of reading novels for pleasure was pretty far outside the norm for the vast majority of people in the mid-20th. Sure, read the newspaper, or a magazine, but, reading for pleasure? Fiction? Particularly Science Fiction or Fantasy? Yeah, not happening.</p><p></p><p>You realize that in the mid-20th century you could actually read every spec fic novel that was released, year on year without too much difficulty? We're talking maybe 20 novels a year, in a VERY good year. There's more original spec fic written and published in the last 10 years than was written in the 20th century. And that's not counting media tie in stuff like Star Wars or Star Trek. This is full on, original SF and/or fantasy. You couldn't possibly read all the English language spec fic that came out last year. You could barely put a small dent in it. We're talking several hundred novels for each of the fantasy and science fiction side.</p><p></p><p>So, how you could possibly claim that writers were more imaginative, more descriptive or more detailed in the past than now is mind blowing. How in the world did you come to that conclusion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8122738, member: 22779"] Ok, there's two things. Mid-20th century, people didn't read. At least, they certainly didn't read fiction. The idea of reading novels for pleasure was pretty far outside the norm for the vast majority of people in the mid-20th. Sure, read the newspaper, or a magazine, but, reading for pleasure? Fiction? Particularly Science Fiction or Fantasy? Yeah, not happening. You realize that in the mid-20th century you could actually read every spec fic novel that was released, year on year without too much difficulty? We're talking maybe 20 novels a year, in a VERY good year. There's more original spec fic written and published in the last 10 years than was written in the 20th century. And that's not counting media tie in stuff like Star Wars or Star Trek. This is full on, original SF and/or fantasy. You couldn't possibly read all the English language spec fic that came out last year. You could barely put a small dent in it. We're talking several hundred novels for each of the fantasy and science fiction side. So, how you could possibly claim that writers were more imaginative, more descriptive or more detailed in the past than now is mind blowing. How in the world did you come to that conclusion? [/QUOTE]
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