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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

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      Strongly disagree. Is it good to read the best of the current stuff? Sure - it would be foolish to NOT read something great. BUT - we have an inheritance of a century of great F&SF; you're far better off picking a random award winner from 100 years of examples than 1 new book https://twitter.com/dacianwanderer/status/1225868934135472128 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

      2/ Further, sometimes artistic fields get into ruts or dead ends. Did the "concrete poetry" of the 1960s lead to anything great? Did brutalist architecture? Did futurist literature? I'll accept that there are perhaps a handful of good things in each ... but >>>

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          3/ In the era of concrete poetry, was reading Shakespeare and trying to write like him a bad idea because it's so old and backwards? In the era of brutalist architecture, was studying Green & Green, or traditional Japanese architecutre bad because it was old?

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          4/ The great thing about having deep reservoirs of cultural is that we have time to reflect, judge, curate, and COLLECT. The worst thing about current trends is that they're often shallow, banal, and leave no trace. We can't do without current trends; experimentation is good.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          5/ And everything great we have today came out of something that was just a trend at one point in time. Dune was NEW and WEIRD. Starship Troopers was NEW and WEIRD. Neuromancer was NEW and WEIRD. etc.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          6/ So, keep an eye on what's new. Absolutely. ...but sometimes (fairly often, actually) trends are dead ends. I see SOME value in a lot of trends. Even 1960s New Wave weirdness ! ...but when I look over the shelves at B&N today I see mountains of crap >>>

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          7/ that have one unifying principle: the author is either female, non-white (which basically means Chinese, because other PoC demographics don't seem to write much SF), or woke / fey nu-males. Tor-led F&SF is in a bubble, most of it's crap, and one is better off >>>

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          8/ ...looking back on the work of the masters, re-reading it, emulating it, and trying NEW experiments. Sometimes you've got to admit a mistake and revert back a few git commits.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

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          9/ 🤔 https://twitter.com/dacianwanderer/status/1225871329649278976 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          10/ > As writers and critics we need to be part of the present conversation. Saying "this is garbage", "this is precious", "this ignores the entire history of the field and instead wears SF as a skin suit to do interpretive dance around eye-rolling gender issues" is engagement.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Feb 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted silicon age tulpa

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          but i agree with @morlockp that quality works are important, and if you need to go back to a different, better, era to find inspiration, that's a better thing to do than write some kind of conservative response to harry potter, for instance.
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        1. nihi‏ @nihiofkdi 7 Feb 2020
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          Brutalism probably had a huge impact on the cyberpunk genre. Like in Aliens all the architecture is brutalist.

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