What trends and tropes do you guys think will become the "next big things" in genre fiction?
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What will be the next big things in genre fiction?
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 Sean A M Lewis |
What will be the next big things in genre fiction? |
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Posts: 28 01/13/09 05:35:45 |
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/13/09 09:03:48 Landlord |
I have no idea. Everything's been done to death, and mixing different tropes together isn't exactly original. I assume originality comes via the
author's unique way of thinking and imagining.
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LL Soares |
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Posts: 1520 01/13/09 09:26:12 Resident Torturer |
More vampire romance. More zombies. And werewolves who get pedicures.
And garden gnomes who go crazy and kill everyone.
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Gotcha! "Bright Green" in TRAPS from DarkHart Press "Still Life with Soul Juice" in RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART "Parched" and "Seven Windows" in DEATH IN COMMON Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/13/09 09:28:59 Fat Bastard |
I think halfway decent grammar, editors who edit, and more attention to proofreading will be the next big thing in genre fiction.*
* I thought everyone could use a laugh here on Tuesday morning. |
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LL Soares |
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Posts: 1520 01/13/09 09:30:24 Resident Torturer |
KentGowran wrote:Why don't you ask for the moon in an easter basket while you're at it. 
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Gotcha! "Bright Green" in TRAPS from DarkHart Press "Still Life with Soul Juice" in RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART "Parched" and "Seven Windows" in DEATH IN COMMON Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/13/09 09:33:37 Fat Bastard |
LL Soares wrote:Well, I didn't want to come off as totally ridiculous. |
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Geekprincessmichele |
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Posts: 514 01/13/09 09:37:36 |
KentGowran wrote: **laughs** I would settle for authors and editors proofreading enough to realize that names like jeff and jeremy can easily be mixed up. And then, when they find it, fixing it. Nothing drives me crazier than that. It throws the whole thing off for me. Even though I know who the author is talking about, it's such a glaring mistake that if it happens more than once in a book, I pretty much won't read the author again. I'm starting to think that everything I read is basically the same story...over and over again. Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are still only seated on our own butt
Last Edited By: Geekprincessmichele 01/13/09 09:39:52.
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LL Soares |
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Posts: 1520 01/13/09 10:10:50 Resident Torturer |
Geekprincessmichele wrote:..pssst, guys, I think she's catching on...
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Gotcha! "Bright Green" in TRAPS from DarkHart Press "Still Life with Soul Juice" in RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART "Parched" and "Seven Windows" in DEATH IN COMMON Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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LL Soares |
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Posts: 1520 01/13/09 10:12:00 Resident Torturer |
KentGowran wrote: 
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Gotcha! "Bright Green" in TRAPS from DarkHart Press "Still Life with Soul Juice" in RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART "Parched" and "Seven Windows" in DEATH IN COMMON Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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Geekprincessmichele |
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Posts: 514 01/13/09 10:44:04 |
LL Soares wrote: Yeah, I'm a little slow. :-) I'm halfway there, next I'll figure out that literature has basic themes... and they are repeated and recycled throughout the course of time... And they are: Mankind's Struggle with God Mankind's Struggle with Nature Mankind's Struggle with Mankind and Cheese. Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are still only seated on our own butt |
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craigsbookclub |
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Posts: 611 01/13/09 12:48:01 Opinionated Loudmouth |
Nearly every story can be boiled down to "somebody wants something, and something else gets in the way".
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/13/09 12:54:27 Fat Bastard |
craigsbookclub wrote:Add "and nothing is what it seems" and you have the plot to every Jim Thompson novel. |
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fartbubble13 |
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Posts: 171 01/13/09 16:03:40 |
voodoo would be interesting though you would still end up with mountains of shitty zombie stories
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/13/09 16:05:42 Landlord |
I like mummy tales. Not enough of those.
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Golophin |
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Posts: 114 01/14/09 13:49:00 |
Zombie teen romances for the emo market.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/14/09 14:51:58 Landlord |
Zombie teens???? EW!
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LL Soares |
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Posts: 1520 01/14/09 15:10:25 Resident Torturer |
Zombie porn and Elf Erotica.
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Gotcha! "Bright Green" in TRAPS from DarkHart Press "Still Life with Soul Juice" in RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART "Parched" and "Seven Windows" in DEATH IN COMMON Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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Geekprincessmichele |
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Posts: 514 01/14/09 16:11:57 |
elf erotica LIVES!
Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are still only seated on our own butt |
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Sean A M Lewis |
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Posts: 28 01/27/09 20:27:17 |
Has anyone else read through the big intro piece in the most recent Mammoth Book of Best New Horror? There are entire pages taken up by paranormal
romance and other such series-based titles. It is somewhat unsettling that horror and dark fantasy are falling into the same "trap" that
mystery/crime writers face: if it ain't a series (in other words, a franchise), good luck!
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/28/09 10:30:50 Fat Bastard |
Sean A M Lewis wrote:That is bothersome, I agree. I certainly don't begrudge the series people their success, though. |
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