This may sound petty but I was at my local used book store this past weekend and in the sci-fi/fantasy section I saw some books by NK Jemison that had literally been collecting dust and it looked like they haven't been touched in a long time. The section has a ton of great older content so I wasn't surprised, but fair or not I compare NK Jemison with Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarekesian.
Women who enter a predominately male hobby and play the victim to get companies to bend the knee. There have always been female fans of sci-fi/fantasy but a true fan doesn't demand that the hobby suit them. I would imagine fantasy is more of an even split between male and female fans but I would definitely say more guys are into sci-fi simply due to the fact that it is a genre that is constantly attacked for being toxic. I used to keep up with the Hugos and various awards and would buy anthologies of the previous award winners in sci-fi/fantasy and sometimes horror.
I remember hearing about the whole sad puppies thing and thinking that the sci-fi community wouldn't stand for it. Boy was I wrong. And it still irritates me that Jemison won three straight Hugo when greats like Asimov, Clarke, or Heinlein didn't and she seems to be unable to actually talk about sci-fi and instead complain about racism. I remember getting into arguments in the youtube comments section on the Hugo awards ceremony when she won. I simply said you can't honestly tell me that she won based on merit. I was attacked for being racist and then I asked the person if she was a black woman that was an avid Trump supporter do you think she would've won? They didn't answer.
So anyway, I know it is petty but it made me happy to know that people in my local area have some taste.
There are damn few good authors in Scifi who are women, and only because there are few who want to put the effort into writing a scifi novel. To set up a fantasy universe or romance story is a simple thing. Scifi requires at least a base understanding of science.
That said, there are a tonne of awful male writers too, and those that are good, wrote a tonne of shit as well. Heinlein himself popped out turds as often as well-written stories. Asimov and Clarke require a great deal of pruning too.
I avoid awards. They're for cunts and asskisssers.
Yep. I’ve learned to avoid awards now. No disagreement. Granted Heinlein is my favorite so even his bad stuff is above average to me lol. I guess my annoyance is the usual crapping on things from the past like I saw an article from a sci fi site before I stopped following it how the 40s and 50s era of sci fi was so bad but today it’s much better thanks to diversity
LMAO! I used to read Scifi Wire before it became the syfylis channel. Used to love their yearly preview of upcoming movies and series. Then some cunt was given power and it suddenly went to shit. She became the editor and I think they got what they fucking deserve.
Sci-Fi channel came out when I was 11 and I loved it. It was a channel that catered to sci-fi fans but like you said new ownership came and apparently they figured they would ignore actual fans. I stopped following the website when brightburn was reviewed and all the moronic critic could talk about was white supremacy
All day marathon of MANIMAL!