OK. I've been primed for a rant for a few days, and now's the time. >>>https://twitter.com/cirsova/status/1078374299621314561 …
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10/ I've got no problem with female authors, Asian authors, black authors, etc. I could name multiple authors in each category that I like. ...but it's also hard to escape the conclusion that the Powers That Be are counting checkboxes as they do their manuscript purchasingpic.twitter.com/7u2KNvbZtZ
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11/ So, OK. Fine. Entryists gonna enter. Now, here's the part that chaps my ass: https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1078377472251506688 …
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12/ Yep! EXACTLY! It's not MERELY that Tor etc have drifted from "left of center" to "hard left", it's that OTHER 1/4 of the market has coalesced hard around Baen. Just as the left has made Scalzi their totem animalpic.twitter.com/TUQPp7bZkX
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14/ I've met Larry two or three times. I've sat down and eaten dinner with him. He's he most charming and nice and skilled guy you'd ever want to meet. ...but it's bad for a very wide genre to be split into two halves, and to be simplified into two camps and two totems.
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15/ It's not that there's a single thing wrong with Monster Hunter Novels, and mercenaries shooting Cthulhu like creatures with .50 BMGs. ...and there's a hell of a lot right about it. Just as there's nothing wrong with lesbian girl-power vampire hunter fiction from the left.
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16/ The problem is that the left consolidated on one side, and took 75% of the market, and the right basically said "oh? well, OK, find, we can do that too!" and gathered all their toys (mostly black pistols and night vision scopes) and rushed off to the other side.
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17/ ...and now there is LITTLE LEFT IN THE MIDDLE. Right wing SF is great. Left wing SF is great. ...but the fertile valley in between these two mountain ranges, watered with the run off from each, was better than either.
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18/ And that valley is mostly gone now. Ringworld was replaced with Right Wing Space Carrier Fleet New America. Pern was replaced with Feminist Dragon Whisperer (of color, also Muslim). Everything got pulled to the poles.
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20/ The end. ...well, until people start commenting, and I feel the need to reply and thread those replies down here | V
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21/ Did you read the part of the tweet that you're responding to which explained that? It started with "...but" and continued "it's hard to escape the conclusion that the Powers That Be are counting checkboxes as they do their manuscript purchasing"https://twitter.com/9ftnina/status/1078380475607990272 …
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22/ Yep. general culture war = video games = comics = science fiction :( https://twitter.com/gamingbus/status/1078380835433263104 …
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23/ The archives are always there, sure ...but the CULTURE is what is being printed & read now. It doesn't matter if Gollancz reprints Kiteworld & few others; the culture is what the other 4,000 titles at B&N are And now that's 10-20% milSF, 90% leftSFhttps://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1078380517182107660 …
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25/ Concur with most of this. I honestly don't like Scalzi's writing - I think it's trite and not good. But that's because his writing is bad, not just bc he is. There are hard lefties who write amazing SF.https://twitter.com/shapr/status/1078386601955332096 …
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