This is a failing among a subset of sf readers dating back at least to the New Wave, but most obvious with DHALGREN, a million-selling novel that in their imaginations no one could possibly read, let alone enjoy.https://twitter.com/tnielsenhayden/status/1023335966612905989 …
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Yes--Judy-Lynn directly accused him of lying about the sales figures because, again, it was obvious that no one could possibly have enjoyed reading it.
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There aren't that many people who buy books, so someone must be faking something somewhere.
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In the preface to later editions of "Ender's Game,"
@orsonscottcard refers to a guidance counselor for gifted children writing in a letter to "Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine" that she had loathed the book (though her son loved it. Card's reply is a classic. 1/3 -
"Of course, I wondered what kind of guidance counselor would hold her son’s tastes up to public ridicule, but the criticism that left me most flabbergasted was her assertion that my depiction of gifted children was hopelessly unrealistic..." 2/3
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Well, I bought Dhalgren and have yet to read it; but I also bought and read all Wolfe's SUN books plus all the others. But yes, one must remember you are not all readers in such sweeping generalizations.
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(Wolfe never won a Hugo, which tells you all you need to know about popular votes.)
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