>There have been between two- and three-hundred new sf novels >published in English every year since the seventies, and probably the >sixties when the paperback boom began. SF as a recognisable genre has >been published since the nineteenth century with Wells and Verne. SF >magazines began in the 1920s and are still published today. That's >around 10,000 SF novels published just since 1960 and another 5000 or >so before, and 5000 or so issues of SF magazines. That's about 20,000 >books worth of reading. I've read around 15% of that and I think I've >read a great deal of science fiction :)
Oops. Appears I overestimated my own coverage by a large margin. I've probably only read somewhere in the region of 5%, if your stats are accurate! But, this is the vast majority of SF I've ever come across or been able to get hold of. >I've heard there is no filler in the fourth season though! Yay! Bring on the space battles! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
