>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!

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