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  • Re: (ReacTor) Four Non-Fiction Subjects That Will Always Find an SFF Au

    From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Thu May 30 09:49:55 2024
    In article <v3a9c1$4mn$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    Four Non-Fiction Subjects That Will Always Find an SFF Audience

    Are you an SF author looking to branch out into non-fiction? Here
    are a few suggestions...

    https://reactormag.com/four-non-fiction-subjects-that-will-always-find-an-sff-
    audience/

    I have noticed that writing about dinosaurs is also an evergreen topic
    (because of new discoveries). I don't know if this is SF adjacent
    non-fiction, but I think there is significant overlap.

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to robertaw@drizzle.com on Thu May 30 12:44:43 2024
    On Thu, 30 May 2024 09:49:55 -0700, Robert Woodward
    <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

    In article <v3a9c1$4mn$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    Four Non-Fiction Subjects That Will Always Find an SFF Audience

    Are you an SF author looking to branch out into non-fiction? Here
    are a few suggestions...

    https://reactormag.com/four-non-fiction-subjects-that-will-always-find-an-sff-
    audience/

    I have noticed that writing about dinosaurs is also an evergreen topic >(because of new discoveries). I don't know if this is SF adjacent >non-fiction, but I think there is significant overlap.

    I have always enjoyed non-fiction about subjects previously written
    about by SF writers (for instance I finished a book on the Voyager
    missions recently) but if somebody can post about Planet of the Apes
    and not get flamed then you should be OK.

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Thu May 30 21:09:19 2024
    On 2024-05-30, Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

    I have noticed that writing about dinosaurs is also an evergreen topic (because of new discoveries). I don't know if this is SF adjacent non-fiction, but I think there is significant overlap.

    In support I offer the fact that I have read Robert T. Bakker's
    _Raptor Red_, a novel about a year in the life of a utahraptor.
    Not a good example for the evergreen character of the topic, though,
    as _Raptor Red_ was published during the dinomania that followed
    the success of _Jurassic Park_.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Thu May 30 22:03:56 2024
    On Thu, 30 May 2024 16:26:41 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:

    Four Non-Fiction Subjects That Will Always Find an SFF Audience

    Are you an SF author looking to branch out into non-fiction? Here
    are a few suggestions...

    https://reactormag.com/four-non-fiction-subjects-that-will-always-find-an-sff-audience/

    A catchy title for some _gardener_ in the fields of human folly. I saw
    what you did there!

    But that is hardly a boast, as you make these things much too easy to
    see. So I am beginning to suspect your taste in puns.

    (As is _very_ well known, at least to me, "Fads and Fallacies in the
    Name of Science" is the title of a book by Martin Gardner.)

    John Savard

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