It's the use of "weird" that bugs me. Isn't most SF non-traditional in many aspects? Wouldn't all of it be "weird" in one way or another?
/I was behind a guy at Goodwill one day who was stoked that he'd found a first edition of Dahlgren on the shelves. He was planning to sell it on-line; but this article says there were a million copies in the first edition, so I wonder if it's all that rare.
I've read about half (the earlier half), and I wouldn't call them particularly weird, especially for SF. Maybe if they were being pitched as "mainstream" fiction, whatever that might be.
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The 10 "weird" items no one's reading is perhaps the least useless i09 post I've read so far, so there's that.
Required by whom, because I must have missed that memo.
(I've read one.)
Jeff
I don't know who requires them. I've read most of them.
It's the use of "weird" that bugs me. Isn't most SF non-traditional in many aspects? Wouldn't all of it be "weird" in one way or another?
/I was behind a guy at Goodwill one day who was stoked that he'd found a first edition of Dahlgren on the shelves. He was planning to sell it on-line; but this article says there were a million copies in the first edition, so I wonder if it's all that rare.
It's not rare. You can get a first edition pretty cheap if you want one.
I've read about half (the earlier half), and I wouldn't call them particularly weird, especially for SF. Maybe if they were being pitched as "mainstream" fiction, whatever that might be.
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