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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brutalism probably had a huge impact on the cyberpunk genre. Like in Aliens all the architecture is brutalist.
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