Comments on: My problem with YA Science Fiction http://anthony-pacheco.com/2008/09/23/my-problem-with-ya-science-fiction/ A Princess, teh Bunneh and Goblin Ninjas. On fire. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anthony http://anthony-pacheco.com/2008/09/23/my-problem-with-ya-science-fiction/#comment-355 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:34:36 +0000 http://anthonypacheco.wordpress.com/?p=622#comment-355 YA Sci Fi was dramatically different from Star Wars even post 1977, at least when I was reading it. Rite of Passage (pre-SW), Cities in Flight (same), John Christopher post-apocalyptic tours of coming of age, Alan Dean Foster (post-SW), and like ten other author/titles that escape me.

If the YA SF market is not reinvented, it will have a profound effect on the SF genre. My son is an avid reader, and all his fiction books lean heavily towards fantasy. He’ll read my SF books I am sure, but when he is older, he is going to open his wallet and buy… what exactly? A genre based on moldy anachronisms from Dad’s library or the genre that fed him good stuff since he learned to read?

Gibbors me mah YA SF!

]]> By: Joseph http://anthony-pacheco.com/2008/09/23/my-problem-with-ya-science-fiction/#comment-351 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:26:42 +0000 http://anthonypacheco.wordpress.com/?p=622#comment-351 That’s interesting to me. I hate hardcovers because I own a bazillion, possibly a gajillion, books and can’t possible shelve them if they are too tall. Plus, they cost more. I also suspect that science fiction aimed at a younger audience would tend to be more “sci fi” or essentially star wars, meaning light on the science and heavy on the laser guns. Maybe the SF writers just tend to aim at harder subject matter not appropriate for a YA reader? I prefer writing SF, and I don’t lean heavily on the science, but my themes are usually more adult, more profound, more challenging than would be appropriate for the 8-18 set.

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