Took over a hundred years to go from Verne’s 1865 From the Earth to the Moon, to Apollo 11 in 1969. Along the way, the speculative tech went from Newtonian to post-relativistic and the culture went from Victorian academic to modern military/cowboy. Buck Rogers appears at year 64
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Serialization is a really underrated way to do fiction. For some reason modern publishing has convinced us novels should be written in private and then released all at once to be binge read. Dunno why. Marketing simplicity?
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Dickens serialized, Asimov serialized... good enough precedents for me. I doubt we’ll get back an era of golden age style magazines. That energy has moved to TV. But email newsletters. Hmm. Really tempting place to experiment with serialization again.
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I find I really can’t do more than about 15,000 words without a publishing feedback loop and I’ve decided not to fight it. The one long book I wrote without such a loop (Tempo) was based on earlier “serialized” academic work produced as talks/papers so doesn’t count.
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