1/ This is like the 10th time Scalzi has sub-blogged me. (It happened a ton back in the http://tjic.com days). He had the courage to link early on, but he's gotten more passive aggressive as his T levels have cropped, I guess. Skimming, bc verbose and boring, but >>https://twitter.com/Jeff_Weimer/status/1295721925570891777 …
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2/ His final line " No canon, just a field forever in conversation with itself, choosing its conversational partners from its past rather than having them assigned from a list." points to the problem: Yes, that's the ideal - the field SHOULD be having that conversation. However
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3/ What my twitter thread a week or so back showed is that huge numbers of the current practitioners in the field are NOT having a conversation with the genre, because they are IGNORANT of the genre. We had 20 something "authors" chiming in saying that SF needs to >>>
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4/ opened up to black, female, and gay voices FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, and these people were so breathtakingly ignorant - as if I (and everyone else) wasn't reading SF written by blacks, women, and gays BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. People somehow opining about the state of SF&F >>>
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5/ and calling ME ignorant and telling me to read up on the history of the field, despite the fact that actually I DO, as a hobby. Some rando told me I was ignorant of the works of Joe Haldeman, which is odd, because I don't think they'd read this scholarly monograph on him.pic.twitter.com/MwC5qKEo4Y
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6/ I was told that I was ignorant of female SF authors, which is odd, because I not only read books they write, but books they write about the fact and history of writing books.pic.twitter.com/sztr3S3N9b
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7/ It was implied that gay SF writers were a new thing, as were black SF writers. ...which is a level of ignorance that's breathtaking. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO READS REFERENCE BOOKS FOR FUN?!?! THIS IS NOT NAM!pic.twitter.com/D9IamAg4fi
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dont forget pro-NAMBLA sci-fi authors get out ahead of the woke curvepic.twitter.com/zA2ojWujPK
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