This, over on Disco Stu's blog made me chuckle. I'm always one for trying to see what's on the shelves to the rear of shots on TV, or I study those shelves in pictures in magazines. Unfortunately I missed this one.
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Incidentally, besides 1984, has anyone seen any sign of science fiction books being dicussed on TV during this purported year of books?
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Outcasts, lol.
I meant SF books. I'll change it.
If, as individual viewers based in the UK, you want to complain to the BBC about failing to cover a single fantasy, horror or science fiction novel during World Book Night, the online form to do this is located at... https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/ ... the more complaints, the better!
The details for the form are: The Books We Really Read: a Culture Show Special. It went out on BBC2 on the 5th March 2011.
tits up! you can spot ASHER from about 4 a.u. away.
what other books are on that shelf? anything good?
hint: usually it's a pile of Iain Banks books nesting around the big ashes.
Nope - not a jot of scifi.
Tons of chicklit though.
I enjoyed the programme, but bet myself that it wouldn't get a mention. In fairness, it was stated (in line with the programme's title) that they were looking at the biggest selling genres; but as an SF fan, a) some sort of mention would have been nice &, b) where does SF genre fit in the sales hierarchy?
it's the usual, the talking heads in the mediaverse don't really consider sci-fi as a genre of literature. So they're happy to discuss chick-lit and vampire tomes but nothing which requires an imaginative leap.
SFcrowsnest, I would complain to the BBC about this but the corporation just doesn't live in the same reality as the rest of the country. Their SF TV is a case in point. They make a desultory attempt at it because they think they ought to, but don't really care all that much since they exist through a tax, rather than in commercial reality.
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