It's simple: not enough market. Most people, and more particularly most SF/F readers, find the whole concept boring, tight-arsed and likely to produce in the earnest acolyte a sort of quasi-Stalinst, "worthy", po-faced boy-meets-tractor drivel or to implode like the closely similar "dogme" movement in film.
There's extremely-hard, near-future SF out there and always has been.
It's a minor market niche and it'll stay that way; we can say that with some confidence, because if there was a bigger potential market the examples already on hand would have sold much better, and hence editors would have bought more of it. Demand, as always, creates supply.
The complaint that there isn't enough "Mundane SF" carries within it its own refutation. If there were enough people willing to give up some of their beer money to read it, there wouldn't be any "lack".
What we have here is a minority taste whining about being a minority.
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Mundane SF and Its Lack
Date: 2005-07-06 06:12 am (UTC)It's simple: not enough market. Most people, and more particularly most SF/F readers, find the whole concept boring, tight-arsed and likely to produce in the earnest acolyte a sort of quasi-Stalinst, "worthy", po-faced boy-meets-tractor drivel or to implode like the closely similar "dogme" movement in film.
There's extremely-hard, near-future SF out there and always has been.
It's a minor market niche and it'll stay that way; we can say that with some confidence, because if there was a bigger potential market the examples already on hand would have sold much better, and hence editors would have bought more of it. Demand, as always, creates supply.
The complaint that there isn't enough "Mundane SF" carries within it its own refutation. If there were enough people willing to give up some of their beer money to read it, there wouldn't be any "lack".
What we have here is a minority taste whining about being a minority.