Dark Mission at #80?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Every now-and-then I take a trawl through the Amazon listing for the top 100 sellers in SF&F. In my most recent pass through, I was somewhat startled to find Dark Mission (Richard Hoagland’s latest embarrassing emanation), at #80. I’m not sure whether to be horrified that it’s selling so well, or delighted that it’s been listed as Science Fiction.
If you look at the listing for the book itself, you’ll see it listed in the following categories:
Books > Science > Astronomy > UFOs
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult > UFOs
Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Historical
Who dreams up these whacky categories? “UFOs” as a sub-category of “Astronomy”?? And while Dark Mission is a load of rubbish, you can’t really call it an historical fantasy, in the conventional sense. It isn’t directly about UFOs either.
