Why are so many books written in the present?

I can only speak of science fiction, but I've noticed that many of the books are written in the present. (So "XYZ goes to the desk and picks up the laptop")

What do you hope for / hope for?

It is a stylistic device. You do not get mixed up with the times ;-)

Ok, it gives the reader a chance to participate in the story. It's like a movie playing in the now. It's easier to get excited, you're really into it.

"Once upon a time…" automatically creates a distance to the protagonists and the story.

Writing in future would be very strange to me as a novel.

Maybe the readers have the feeling that they are "live" attending the event and more likely to see themselves as part of the story?!

I do not know, I just know that I think it's very stupid…>: /

Individual passages then seem more exciting.
For a whole book it is less recommendable.

Otherwise I'm not.

Well, that pretty much bothers me too…

I look different. It can be very exciting to be able to read everything in contemporary form.

What are you not?

Writing in future would be very strange to me as a novel.

Right, correct way, it should be like that. I think the past tense is better. With me then always the thought "Oh yes, huh?!" Reading has something old-fashioned for me, but you absolutely want to "spice it up", think that totally upsets.

Quite simply, these are novels.

A novel takes the reader on a journey and the reader should always have the feeling that he is with it NOW this month.

Moreover, it is easier in the present-day form to switch to the past if there's a flashback within the face.

Advanced past tenses always seem extremely contrived.

With the times mixed up.

Old-fashioned and relaxing…

Then we're 2 …

May the ladies and gentlemen consider authors with a tendency to the present form of writing in the future…

Yes, and I'm sad: /

Oh. Well, I did not think so too. It was meant more jokingly.

But especially in science fiction there are ancient books, so really "old-fashioned". There's nothing to spice things up ;-)

Right, then I have to read that necessarily… If I was a Buddhist I could make Harakiri and grow up with it, then I would not bother me anymore…

I was just at my bookshelf with my three books and have to admit I could not find science fiction written in the present. But I got the desire again to read one or the other book again. Shall I give you a few titles?

At the latest when a story has different time levels, the stylistic makes sense. And I can't find anything negative about it. I recently read a trilogy where the first and second parts were written in the past tense, the third in the present tense. I found that even better / more immediate / alive.

No, I like to use state-of-the-art technology, so much has happened over the years. I once started one, it was written in the 80s, but on Amazon it looked like it came out, but it was new only as an e-book. That was not my case.

I think we're talking right now. I meant science fiction books that are really good. And even though they were written decades ago, they still play in the future.

Yes, as I said, I like to relax while reading, according to the motto: An old man tells "Once upon a time…" only as a scifi, because the present form is so "lurid" over, I think it's just annoying.

That sounds very much to your personal taste. "Once upon a time" to write in the presence would be very presumptuous. But SciFi does not really fit with that… Of course, retrospective stories can also be very interesting. But the past just does not fit all the stories.

No, that's alright. I do not mean the time, but the technique that occurs in it. But if they are not older than 10 years, I could make friends with it, but also have a lot to read myself, always start everything and then lose the desire.

There's also science fiction, which is not technology-heavy. I'll give you some titles. If and what you read then, you have to decide for yourself:

Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Chants + Endymion

William Gibson - Cyberspace

Simon R. Green - The Iron Throne (The Deathstalker Saga, several books)

Frank Herbert - The Desert Planet (The Desert Planet Cycle, several books)

C.J.Cherryh - The Duncan Trilogy (Kesrith + Shon'jir + Kutath)

Alfred Bester - Demolition

Alfred Bester - Tiger! Tiger! (also "The revenge of the cosmonaut")

Marge Piercy - He, She and It

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