Re:Sci-fi authors
[quote]In an age of lowered attention spans, author franchises and character branding are the way you make money in the book business. Publishers believe people don’t want to see new characters. They want to see a new episode with old characters. It’s nearly impossible to sell a single novel without a plan– or better yet, an outline– for the rest of the franchise. Authors who get to do so are very, very lucky.
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True words!
The thing is familiar vs. new; it can depend on the times…
I don’t mind familiar if it is energetic and opens new doors with old characters but if it doesn’t go anywhere then you can read ten books like it and predict endings with ease.
That’s why variety is the spice of life…. I mean life and routines get us by for a while but I turn pages in sci-fi novels and turn on sci-fi to escape some, to learn some, but for entertainment.
The what ifs are few and far between; it’s more like what now 🙄 😛
I want that freshness of what ifs again; not suffering through another what now will they do to make this book/show too incredible to believe or too mundane to care about anymore.
AD sci-fi; for those that want the whiff of sci-fi without investing any thought into it. easy come, easy go. Something to crow about until the next shiny show grabs your attention; where writers become word shock-jocks.
Teflon TV; no stick!