I remember when the sad puppies thing started and there was pushback from real sci/fi fans because low selling books were getting awards because they were written by females or lgbt and then we saw the familiar “we need more females in sci-fi”. I will say it was the first time I heard the “it’s always been progressive” argument. Granted a lot of authors are liberal for their day. There is also the truth that sci-fi tends to appeal to more guys so it was bound to get attacked

The nature of sci-fi is to speculate on the future. I feel if all these authors they claim to be woke or progressive were alive today, they would be attacked by the very same people. Look what happened to George RR Martin

I remember when the sad puppies thing started and there was pushback from real sci/fi fans because low selling books were getting awards because they were written by females or lgbt and then we saw the familiar “we need more females in sci-fi”. I will say it was the first time I heard the “it’s always been progressive” argument.

The nature of sci-fi is to speculate on the future. I feel if all these authors they claim to be woke or progressive were alive today, they would be attacked by the very same people. Look what happened to George RR Martin