Well, they may not be in fashion, but I think that it is far more possible to do your own niche thing nowadays... I am much less likely to go to a bookstore with the blank slate desire to find 'something interesting to read' ... partly, alas, because the sections I frequent are mostly being filled by the computer recs, without apparent human modification, and do not feel *loved,* but also because my TBR list is adjusted ahead of time, based on release dates that I'm already aware of, or (for new authors) mailing list &c fan buzz.
hm, I'm not sure it's a 'definition': If it's easy to use (or mis-use) the adjective 'epic' when describing some aspect of the book...
Dune? Cherryh's SF? Bujold's Vorkosigan stuff?
Oddly enough, I persist in thinking that Cordwainer Smith's stuff is, while not precisely Space Opera, perhaps 'kin to space opera.' But the ways he shows potential physical action sequences are different. -- megd
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:23 pm (UTC)Examples... will ponder. Good space operas seem to be out-of-fashion lately. I blame the postmodernists.
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Date: 2004-09-24 11:44 am (UTC)hm, I'm not sure it's a 'definition':
If it's easy to use (or mis-use) the adjective 'epic' when describing some aspect of the book...
Dune?
Cherryh's SF?
Bujold's Vorkosigan stuff?
Oddly enough, I persist in thinking that Cordwainer Smith's stuff is, while not precisely Space Opera, perhaps 'kin to space opera.' But the ways he shows potential physical action sequences are different.
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megd