Comments on: The Amazing SF Death Stories Blog Post Template

By: Amy Sterling Casil

Amy Sterling Casil — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Ha ha ha, I saw you were already over in the other shop, Steve. Hmn. Well, for the good of the order, there’s a whole new remastered section in the bookstore as of the past week or so. Many reissues, etc. At least somebody’s trying . . . It’s all reprints so far, but definitely more activity and effort than I’ve seen for a long time.

By: A Lot To Be Humble About « File 770

A Lot To Be Humble About « File 770 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:22:19 +0000

[...] the topics I follow. The Crotchety Old Fan came to mind because I had just read his very funny automated “sf is dying/dead” blog entry (there are so many lately that he hoped to save everyone the bother of thinking up any [...]

By: Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily » Blog Archive » Not Dead Yet

Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily » Blog Archive » Not Dead Yet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:53:11 +0000

[...] Fan, fed up with yet another article predicting the imminent demise of SF, has created a helpful template to let writers quickly scratch their prognosticatory itch and get on with other things. The [...]

By: A New Plateau | The Crotchety Old Fan

A New Plateau | The Crotchety Old Fan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:39:25 +0000

[...] that some time was apparently spent creating an automated post generator using material from THIS post, claiming that silliness and available time were [...]

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:22:43 +0000

I got silly (it was quiet at work today) and automated this for you:

http://www.other-worlds-cafe.com/downloads/postgenerator.php

Should save all kinds of time.

By: Little Bits | The Crotchety Old Fan

Little Bits | The Crotchety Old Fan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:23 +0000

[...] – I refer John to the Amazing SF Death Stories Blog Post Template entry here from a few days ago and point out that he could have suitably modified the template for [...]

By: Larry Steckler

Larry Steckler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:27:13 +0000

HUGO GERNSBACK would have gone out and used his cane to beat those who would say Sci-Fi is dead!!!! It cannot die, It can only change. There will always be a future, there will always be those who see it today. They will write about, video it, display it for those who’s minds are too small to see tomorrow.

For more information on Hugo Gernsback check out a new biography available on Amazon.

The document was found by me when we closed down Gernsback Publications in 2003. It was an old ms that I edited and produced as a book.

Follow the link and you can go to the book and thanks to Amazon’s “look inside” feature, you can even get an idea of what it covers.

http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Gernsback-Well-Ahead-Time/dp/1419658573/ref=ed_oe_p

Hope you find it interesting.

For more information feel free to contact me, Larry Steckler, at PoptronixInc@aol.com

By: Amy Sterling Casil

Amy Sterling Casil — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:36:58 +0000

You guys are very nice, and the apologies are extremely appreciated. When I first saw this in the early morning, especially glancing over the “options,” I thought that Steve couldn’t have gone to BVC and was just slagging. Now I see that’s not the case in any way. It’s hilarious and true viewed as “pick your options” for problems because of course, ever single writer that used to have a busy book career, and many who hadn’t, has written that type of post in recent years, because the business that once was busy and booming for books, isn’t busy and isn’t booming any longer. Also, since the Crotchety Old Fan implies “crotchety” and “old” – man, I was sad at the last WorldCon I attended (Denver). Because there were so many older fans, and younger ones were gaming, partying, costuming, etc. – maybe watching films – definitely not interacting with writers. That was why I volunteered to do the Young Adult (which turned out to be full-on child) programming, after doing it at LA Con previously. They did get to interact with me, so those poor kids are now scarred for life.

As to the main point of your post, I am carrying Tuesdays at BVC and do have my own blog. Today I have the hugest pain in the back, I think from last weekend of solid work on the book I am revising sitting in a super cheap, crappy folding chair. You couldn’t be more right, Steve. Most people don’t know that I’m also an artist. My daughter is doing zombie for Halloween and I got into the big plastic box that has my art supplies in it last night to get out some decent brushes and basically sat on the floor and got misty-eyed looking at the enormous box of stuff – good stuff. Great brushes, every imaginable sort of paint, including “special favorites,” tons of quality archival paper, small canvases I made and never used, bleh bleh bleh. The best I could do was continue on this book, and 2 other stories in the past 6 months, and the artwork I did earlier was, gosh, it’s going to be December/January. Yeah. You are right.

By: The Crotchety Old Fan

The Crotchety Old Fan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:37:44 +0000

Bob,

I know that Amy qualified her post with that line (though the folks she chose as examples qualify as “killers of the genre” so far as I’m concerned – but then again, most media SF isn’t SF in my opinion either).

As I said in my response to her comment, her piece actually inspired my satirical post. Though given her reaction I gather she’d rather not take that credit.

She could have asked if it was directed at her instead of accusing me of not reading her piece (I wonder if she read all of mine?) but in the interest of being fair and clear -

full apologies to Ms. Amy Sterling Casil for any unintentional grief my attempt at humor may have caused her.

By: Bob Lock

Bob Lock — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:58:32 +0000

I cringe each time I stumble across ‘SF is dead’ notices as there is always the possibility that if it’s said enough times then people will start to take notice. It will become even harder to get the genre accepted by readers/publishers if they think you are flogging a dead horse. Amy qualified her opening statement by adding – ‘Don’t get me wrong. Science fiction isn’t dead. It’s alive and well, and Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, and many others not quite in their stratosphere are entertaining hundreds of thousands, and often, hundreds of millions worldwide.’ as a caveat.
But I’d rather have read something more rallying about SF than a warning of its coming demise.

BTW, I notice your link-back on her page has mysteriously disappeared… I blame alien abduction