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    1. David Hines‏ @hradzka Feb 8

      Reading Altman and Gross’s oral STAR TREK history THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION and this bit from John D. F. Black stopped me cold. It can’t possibly be true… can it? I mean, maybe at the very top of the short story market, for stars — but for *workaday short story sf writers?* 🤯🤯🤯pic.twitter.com/ITnFQfv8v5

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    2. Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev Feb 8
      Replying to @hradzka

      I would read Harlan Ellison's letter resigning from the SFWA before taking this too seriously.

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    3. David Hines‏ @hradzka Feb 8
      Replying to @St_Rev

      That’s exactly why my brain broke!

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 28
      Replying to @hradzka @St_Rev

      You two are now reminding me that as a kid I daydreamed of someday publishing an SF novel so that I could join the SFWA and thus be credentialed / validated as a "real" writer...and when I did (and criteria now allow self pub) ... I had zero desire. >>>

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 28
      Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka @St_Rev

      That's one example of how much norms and culture have changed, which sits interestingly side by side w the collapse in short story rates. I think Analog paid 3 or 4 cents per word in the 40s and today the "pro" rate is 8 cents. But w 15x inflation, that means 0.5 1945 cents

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 28
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka @St_Rev

          So payment rates have fallen by 85% or so The entire field is just a small band of hobbyists w day jobs doing hobby stuff for other hobbyists. There IS NO PRO SF. ITS ALL FANZINES. EVEN THE NOVELS.

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        3. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus Feb 28
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka @St_Rev

          I read at one point that the pulp era (when the scifi zines started) took advantage of pulps being basically the only source of cheap entertainment from 1900-1955 or so but then TV

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