Thou shalt not tick-off a bunch of SciFi Authors!

Cortez writes “”The project began after PublishAmerica posted an attack on science fiction authors at one of its websites (http://www.authorsmarket.net/). PublishAmerica claimed “As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction…. [Science fiction authors] have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home.” It described them as “writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters. ” Well, that was a thrown gauntlet to 30 Sci-Fi authors: More Here.

February 16, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. kylere says:
    February 16, 2005 at 7:22 pm

    Okay I read the “book”
    I lied, I made it about 30 pages in and gave up. Any firm that offered to publish this after even reading one page is not a real publisher. This work makes the Deadlands/Mac Bolan/Destroyer etc. series look like masterpieces by comparison.

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