1/ old SF was 10% great new SF is 0.1% great https://twitter.com/silviamg/status/1032011074373967873 …
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3/ Every week or so I go to B&N and the SFF shelves are 4x wider than at Waldenbooks 30 years ago, and there is less actual SFF there * tattooed-female-werewolf hunter * six-genders no-plot whatever * TRANSLATED FROM CHINA BECAUSE ASIANS ARE MINORITIES * let's-subvert-the-genre
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4/ It's the typical prog thing of killing a beloved category, skinning it, and wearing the corpse-puppet as a disguise
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5/ There's still good SFF being written...but you can't find it in the bookstores.
@robkroese ,@JASutherlandBks , @NickColeBooks ,@jondelarroz are just a few examples. All self-published, bc the establishment is dead to most good SFF writers.Show this thread -
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7/ Someone should write an essay about this!http://lfs.org/blog/travis-corcorans-acceptance-speech-for-powers-of-the-earth-award/ …
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