AICN BOOKS! Adam Balm On William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Brian Aldiss, And More!
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I love the fact that we’ve got two regular book review columns going, and they’re so different. Today, we’ve got our SF/Fantasy guy back with a column full of reviews of new books by some of the biggest genre names.
So dig in… it’s a great one:
So we’ve had a little over a week for the Deathly Hallows frenzy to die down a bit, and now the question industry folks are asking themselves is “Gee, what’s going to happen to all those readers who artificially pumped up overall fantasy sales to record numbers? Will they stick around or will they all go buy nintendo wiis instead?’ The next 12 months are going to give everyone an idea. Either way, we’re going to see a continuing influx of titles declaring themselves to be ‘the next Harry Potter’ for a long while to come. At the same time we’re seeing more authors offering their works for free via podcasts and downloadable under the creative commons license. All this is going to spell changes for the SF and Fantasy sections of bookstores, and I’m not dumb enough to try and forecast what those are going to be. But whichever way this goes, it’ll be interesting times ahead.