I follow Ian Sales on twitter, so I know he - for instance - wouldn't support a science fictional future without women
That's really useful to know. Between his dismissal of Katniss as "a super-special snowflake" ("teenage narcissism . . . the sort of nonsense kids believe") and his lament for the days of Gernsback, he came off as a lot more retrograde than he apparently is. Thank you for the corrective.
I see exciting work being done at the moment in short fiction, but if you went by this article you'd think all SFF is turgid doom.
Yeah. The state of novels may well be dire—I'm not reading that many at the moment—but short fiction is thriving and diverse and not that depressing from where I read!
Do you know him well enough to point him in the direction of some contemporary short speculative markets?
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That's really useful to know. Between his dismissal of Katniss as "a super-special snowflake" ("teenage narcissism . . . the sort of nonsense kids believe") and his lament for the days of Gernsback, he came off as a lot more retrograde than he apparently is. Thank you for the corrective.
I see exciting work being done at the moment in short fiction, but if you went by this article you'd think all SFF is turgid doom.
Yeah. The state of novels may well be dire—I'm not reading that many at the moment—but short fiction is thriving and diverse and not that depressing from where I read!
Do you know him well enough to point him in the direction of some contemporary short speculative markets?