We know he's one the biggest and most consistent selling authors for the gen x'ers and millennials on here. We know he's still very much well read today.
But will his novels still be read in the same that Poe, Asimov, Lovercraft, Henry James are? (just using those as horror/speculative writers as an example)
by Famous_Obligation959
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Honestly, probably. Not because I think he’s timeless, but because we just don’t seem to be allowed to move on anymore. The corps that own mainstream art just want to make money and that’s the easiest way to do it.
Some of them, sure. But will people even read books in 100 years—maybe most people will absorb books through neural interfaces.
1832: Books going strong
1932: Audiobooks invented
2032: Neuralbooks introduced
Do people still read Poe?
No. His novels are not timeless. They capture a zeitgeist of late c.20th American culture and beyond that, they have zero literary merit.
Long live the King.