“Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!”
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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.