6/ ...but some of the same was going on. Baen, which had been publishing mil SF (and other things) for decades became known as the place that was safe for right and libertarian authors. Unfortunately, when Tor etc went left, Baen went (further) right.
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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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