Warren Ellis interviews William Gibson

[thewayne]

Authors interviewing authors are frequently good things. Sadly, it's only three questions. One of these days I'll read more Gibson.

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/15-08/pl_print

Comments

[silveradept]

Ooog. Really? It's not bookstores, but those piddling offerings on supermarket shelves that get bought? That's kind of sad, considering of what I usually see there, most of it looks to be the long harlequin romance type of stuff. If we could just get them into a library...

...but that does help explain why covers are the way they are, yes. Explosions, creatures, or improbably-constructed wo/men in equally improbably-constructed costuming seems to be what people think will sell a book.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Makes sense, specially since the #1 supermarket is unfortunately Walmart. Come to think of it, as a kid we used to shop at a store chain called Fed Mart, I don't know how big they were, but I don't think they really survived into the 80's, at least in Phoenix. I clearly remember buying my first Fred Saberhagen there, "The Dracula Tape" (I still have it). It had to be very early 70's. At the time I really didn't know SF, I shortly started buying used copies of Analog magazineby the (paper) grocery bag-full. That began introducing me to a wider range of authors and began refining my SF interests.