Re: (Shockwave Reader) A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

On 7/15/25 08:17, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2025-07-15, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
 

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/till-eternity

 | A number of SF authors pursued careers like Brunner’s: early
| prodigious output of competent pulp, a middle ambitious period,
| the grim realization that readers had no interest in rewarding
| their hard work with a commensurate increase in income, embittered
| disenchantment, and a return to their origins, albeit with better
| prose and plotting.
 I'll bite: What other authors followed such a career trajectory?
 

It has only lately that readers have been able, it they can afford it, to
reward writers and grahic artists directly. In the old pulp days and in the
golder age of Galaxy, Worlds of If, Astounding, Amazing, Fantasy and
Science Fitction, Azimov's, magazines it was editors and publishers who limited
the rewards for all the writers.  The readers merely paid the cover price
for the magazine or book and we expected the publishers to reward
the writers appropriately.
bliss.