Aug. 28th, 2012
From David Drake's obit for Jim Baen:
Did MilSF languish in the 1990s?
And then I thought further and said that when I was sure my career was tanking–
“You thought that? When was that?”
In the mid ’90s, I explained, when Military SF was going down the tubes with the downsizing of the military. But when I was at my lowest point, which was very low, I thought, “I can write two books a year. And Jim will pay me $20K apiece for them–”
Did MilSF languish in the 1990s?