1/ Most of the SF being published today is not just garbage, it is a very narrow type of garbage, written by people who are more familiar with movies and videogames than they are with the great artistic traditions and explorations of the field. Modern SF is rightly scornedhttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289943323965132805 …
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2/ I'm not saying this because "oh, Heinlein and Niven are all anyone needs". SF has been hugely diverse (in the way that matters, CONTENT, not just in some diversity hire checklist, although also that), and what we're getting now doesn't remotely reflect that.
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3/ ...and of course it doesn't, because the current authors aren't, for the most part, conversant with the field. A field of literature is, ideally, an ongoing conversation where the author/fans read new ideas, digest them, and respond to them, pushing the party forward
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4/ The classic story of Heinlein writing Starship Troopers, and Haldemann responding to it and rejecting it by writing The Forever War is the epitome of this, but it has happened thousands of other times - more often than not, really.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Would be interested in hearing about other examples.
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uh...like, every book ever Earth of the New Sun is a response to Dying Earth is a response to, kinda, the Nightlands The Powers of the Earth is a response to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (and also Cities in Flight, and also City, and also ...)
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And just to be clear, I was genuinely curious. I was not calling you out, in case you thought that. I am aware that culture influences books, but you seemed be saying that Joe Haldeman was consciously responding to SST. What I am curious about is that sort of information.
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Did Gene Wolfe acknowledge TDE as an influence? I’d just like to know more.
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