Literature in Andromeda

I'm sure many of you who are reading this blog have a fascination with literature. If you don't, I'm certain you at least know how to read. Here in Andromeda, reading is an important pastime; the information of an entire galaxy is ready to be absorbed by a curious mind.

Think of all the literature you Earthlings have created over your history. Books, articles, treatises, letters, journals, poems, essays, scripts, and event the mighty blog. Doubtless the literature available is extensive.

In Andromeda, the situation is even more severe. We have thousands of thousands of times as much literature available to us, the literature of earth multiplied by the colonized planets in the galaxy. Our population is vastly greater, and as such we have produced many greater and many lesser works.

One of the greatest problems with a scope of knowledge so large is seeking out the best text on a subject in the vast array of incredibly similar literature. For example, an eager mind who seeks to learn about the electrons of a boron atom has many a book to turn too. There's "Electrons of the Boron Atom," "The Boron Atom's Electrons," and the ever popular "Negatively Charged Particles of Element 5, also Known as Boron, the Element Containing Five, neither Four nor Sixty-Two, Protons," too name a few that were released in the last five years. That ignores all the holograms, space tapes, dilated flux transistors, and various other media through which the information can be conveyed. Needless to say, the market for literature appears to be saturated.

However, with such a vast scope of readers, the information industry continues to thrive. Our knowledge base increases exponentially, as we explore farther and farther into the realms of our universe. The trick is avoid writing more about broad subjects such as atomic nuclei and psycliometrics, but rather new, unexplored arenas. If someone were to publish literature about a girl who falls in love with a vampire, for example, I'm sure the people of Andromeda would find it to be a big hit; there's not enough of that stuff here. You wouldn't happen to know of such literature on Earth, would you?