'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Great books are rare.
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.