The discussion of collector generations; older, middle, younger, etc. reminds me of a story I started to write sometime ago after a weird dream I had. For the record, I'm in the much older generation collecting group here. Anyway, here's a little snip it of the goofy story:
The Day We Lose our King
The day we lose our King (Stephen King that is) will be a dark day indeed. For the older generation of King collectors (you know who you are) it will turn into a nightmare so horrifying that you will begin to believe that King wrote it as his final book.
At first, the younger King fan generation will be in denial of the death announcement, but once discovered the news to be true, the denial will soon turn to anger, greed, and total anarchy.
The younger collectors, through violent actions, over powers the existing government to become the new governing body of The Lands (formally called USA). First order of business, compile a database of elder King collectors names and addresses for the purpose of rounding them up for final processing.
The governing body knows this won’t be an easy task,
rounding up the elders, so they create lies to make the elders feel comfortable with the idea of moving to a new governing body facility providing a safe place to live, thrive, and most importantly, a place to store and protect their beloved rare King books.
The lies begin to work, the elders fear what The Lands have become so they begin the process of packing their rare books up in hopes of a safe place to live.
Let the final processing begin.
I know, goofy. Now back to the discussion with normal people.
Mulleins