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Written by Zach Weinersmith on 2024-11-22 at 21:41

For reasons I don't quite understand, A City on Mars did OK to good on sales in the first year, but in the second year is getting a resurgence in media? Theories:

1. Looked like a generic book, so people had to read it and THEN spread the word?

2. Media thought it had been done before

3. We won some prizes

4. Elon Musk suddenly a major political figure

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Written by DamonHD on 2024-11-22 at 21:43

@ZachWeinersmith (3) is why I have seen it in verious places over the last couple of weeks, though we bought it for our son last year...

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Written by jenbanim on 2024-11-22 at 21:45

@ZachWeinersmith Good to hear it's getting more attention! My guess is that the (deserved) Musk hate train is a big part of this

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Written by Zach Weinersmith on 2024-11-22 at 21:48

@jenbanim I feel a profound ambivalence about this possibility!

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Written by jenbanim on 2024-11-22 at 21:50

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Written by Mathieu Goux on 2024-11-22 at 21:48

@ZachWeinersmith 5) All of the above?

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Written by Orb 2069 on 2024-11-22 at 21:56

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Written by K~ on 2024-11-22 at 23:10

@ZachWeinersmith Those all sound like plausible reasons. If I had to guess, I'd say winning the prizes was probably the main thing; not because it's a 'prize winning book', but rather it leads people to look more closely at what the book actually is.

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Written by Janne Moren on 2024-11-22 at 23:42

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I bought it just last week. Nothing to do with Musk - someone here on Mastodon mentioned it was on sale on Kobo in the US. That reminded me of the book, so I checked and it was on sale here too. In the cart it went.

So word of mouth, basically.

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Written by Elio Campitelli on 2024-11-23 at 00:39

@ZachWeinersmith Good. It should be mandatory reading for any space nerd!

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Written by patcanfield on 2024-11-23 at 01:47

@ZachWeinersmith funny!

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Written by Steveg58 on 2024-11-23 at 05:46

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Possibly a bunch of people bought the book believing that it was about Musk's vision and then got angry because it wasn't?

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