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Am I In Competition with Better-Known, More Successful Sci-Fi Authors?
Not really. But I feel a bit jealous of their success and see them as competition as such.
I just finished reading the first novel of Tim Pratt’s sci-fi series The Axiom. I found The Wrong Stars really hard to put down. The story was engaging, the characters compelling, and it was an excellent read.
Who is Tim Pratt? A Hugo Award winning author with more than 20 novels under his belt in both sci-fi and fantasy. When I read that at the end of the book — I admit I felt a pang of jealousy.
Wow. He’s gotten a lot further than I have as an author. And I guess, in the sci-fi marketplace — we are, technically, in competition. But not really.
Before that, I read the Sky Full of Stars series by Lindsay Buroker. Though she’s not an award-winning author like Tim Pratt, she tells great stories and writes and sells enough novels to live as a full-time author. Another sci-fi author — but not really competition.
The same applies to others I’ve been reading in the last year. Becky Chambers, Alex White, and Joel Shepherd are all great sci-fi writers who have won awards and achieved success as known quantities.
