Comments on: J.G. Ballard as a Luddite—plus the challenges of sci-fi, even in the e-book era http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jg-ballard-as-a-luddite-plus-the-challenges-of-sci-fi-even-in-the-e-book-era/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Ballard Backlash x2 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jg-ballard-as-a-luddite-plus-the-challenges-of-sci-fi-even-in-the-e-book-era/comment-page-1/#comment-405717 Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Ballard Backlash x2 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:41:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6642#comment-405717 [...] + David Rothman at TeleRead: So it harms literature when you can more easily shuffle around sentences and paragraphs and chapters? I can recall writing pre-computer, and it was not nearly as much fun or efficient. How many other TeleBloggers remember composing on paper in single-space, then snipping and pasting the results together? Of course, the classic defier of Luddites was Mark Twain, who used a then-newfangled device known as a typewriter. Meanwhile, horror of horrors, J.G.’s Crash, described by one reader as “about car-crash sexual fetishism,” is available as an e-book, and at least several other works are as well.” [...] [...] + David Rothman at TeleRead: So it harms literature when you can more easily shuffle around sentences and paragraphs and chapters? I can recall writing pre-computer, and it was not nearly as much fun or efficient. How many other TeleBloggers remember composing on paper in single-space, then snipping and pasting the results together? Of course, the classic defier of Luddites was Mark Twain, who used a then-newfangled device known as a typewriter. Meanwhile, horror of horrors, J.G.’s Crash, described by one reader as “about car-crash sexual fetishism,” is available as an e-book, and at least several other works are as well.” [...]

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/jg-ballard-as-a-luddite-plus-the-challenges-of-sci-fi-even-in-the-e-book-era/comment-page-1/#comment-394646 Rob Preece Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:11:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6642#comment-394646 In the work world, we went through the switch to computers in the 80s. I guess Ballard hasn't caught on yet--oh, well. I've suspected for a long time that the huge number of Star Wars/Star Trek novelizations would impact the popularity of real SF--just hope this isn't the case because, uh, I'm getting ready to send one to my agent. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com In the work world, we went through the switch to computers in the 80s. I guess Ballard hasn’t caught on yet–oh, well.

I’ve suspected for a long time that the huge number of Star Wars/Star Trek novelizations would impact the popularity of real SF–just hope this isn’t the case because, uh, I’m getting ready to send one to my agent.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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