Does this really need its own genre?
Posted Mar 13, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC
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Yes.
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Yes; segregation stops the madness of finding Twilight next to Dracula.
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A massively popular and lucrative subset of fiction gets its own section to encourage efficient and identifiable shopping? Those fools! How dare they!
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Oh, I don't blame the bookstore. It makes perfect sense on their part. I just thought it was in interesting aspect of the human condition that this stuff is so massively popular.
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yeah, it's like when r/pics floods with advice animals, then they go and get their own subreddit. and when that floods with shitty advice animals... they get their own...
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Well, there goes any hope for humanity.
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FUCK that shit. I am filled with white hot rage that there is a whole section for this filth, yet I walk up to the sci-fi section and they fill it up with fucking fantasy puke, and shit like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Where's my fucking Asimov and Clarke you fucktards!! /rant
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Fantasy puke like LOTR? Let's be realistic here, LOTR and The Hobbit are some of the best examples of classic Sci-fi. the reason they fill that section with the likes of Tolkien and others is because they sell a lot more than Clarke or Asimov, It's nothing personal trust me. Let let me also remind you you're complaining about a store like Barnes and Noble or Borders, not the independent shops that care about what they sell not just how much they sell. There's no doubt that Asimov was an excellent writer but in comparison to alot of more mainstream sci-fi writers, they're a niche market. Honestly though, you're barking up the wrong tree.
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I've got no problem with LOTR and the Hobbit being sold in large quantities in book stores, but they ARE NOT SCI_FI, they are fantasy. How could it be SCI-FI if there is no SCI??
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It saves you time having to skip over them ...