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Before I came upon Hill's work, I'd been feeling discouraged about the current state of the genre, reading (and often abandoning) story after story that failed to persuade, failed to frighten, failed to stimulate whatever don't-go-there sensation it is we're looking for when we suspend disbelief, abandon hope and plunge into the dark forest of horror.
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"It went from being a despised genre read by vulgarians like me to a very respected branch of literature".
(It happens in every genre — read Alex Ross's "Listen To This" for his take on the greatly exaggerated reports of another demise).
But even though science fiction remains a popular genre read by millions of fans, its short-story category has fallen on hard times.
Stories from the Web(hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/stories/index.htm) A well-designed site for eight- to 11-year-olds where they can pick a story by author, title or genre, read interviews with the authors and extracts from their books, or send in their own contribution.
If he/ she wrote a book of that genre, read the back, and the first chapter.
Keep in mind that reading a politically charged tome at bedtime will be more effort than a lightweight genre read.
If you want to write with a particular style or in a particular genre, read things that are related to that.
If you really want to still read popular book genres, read books that are extremely thick and not very popular (this means you'd need to avoid books like the Hunger Games series, the Twilight series, and the Inkheart series).
Flamenco is not a rejuvenating genre: until reading the program, I assumed that these performers were several years older than they apparently are.
Going back to the SF genre after reading Gibson, I realised with disappointment that, with few exceptions, escapism was all it offered.
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