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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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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