Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs.
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Point being, the next decade is going to be the worst time to launch EU franchises. It will be easier to do literary fiction than genre for a while. Weird inversion. BUT!!!! If you can launch in this winter culture, you could be as big as Agatha Christie.
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There will be a rush of talent trying to do the Woolf/Hemingway/Fitzgerald type thing. EUs will be in a countercyclic slump.
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So... I rarely make predictions like this, but I think there will be a genre fiction recession for a decade. And less confidentially, a literary fiction boom (stuff people actually read, not MFA program lit)
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I was going back and forth about PG Wodehouse. I’d classify it as Edwardian nostalgia mostly set in the 20s. He wrote mostly in the 20s/30s but began writing it pre-WW1. Bertie Wooster and Lord Emsworth both first appear in 1915.https://twitter.com/kapilgupta/status/1318421606499274753?s=21 …
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He’s not a hybrid between old and new. He was just pure escapist nostalgia for a vanishing world even in his own time. He basically ignored all the bad shit going down. It’s basically a funny version of Downton Abbey.
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Wonder if there’s a good survey of world literature 1910-1940 in relation to its historical context.
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Hmm randomly trawling for stuff down this bunny trail I remember reading most of the Biggles series as a kid. A fictional fighter pilot turned “air detective” with career spanning WWI to 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles
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Hmm. HP Lovecraft is to post WW1 apocalyptic conditions as Godzilla is to post WW2?
An extended anti-universe of forces that destroy human attempts at creating universes.https://twitter.com/bysl/status/1318446561190322177?s=21 …Show this thread
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