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BeccaPrice · 05-05-2012, 12:10 PM

I've run into a couple of blogs lately on the future of SF/F:

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_12/

by Elizabeth Bear, which spawned this by Abi Sutherland on Making Light:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight...79.html#013879

Which spawned these thoughts on how ebooks are changing the future of SF as a genre by Charlie Stross

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/

which led to this link on why so many people are reading YA these days rather than litfic.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...804387216.html

I'd love to read any comments people here would have.

Me, other than select authors, I've pretty much stopped reading most SFF because it's all so grim. And it seems like there are two kinds of mysteries these days: cute cozies that relate to cats, bookstores, and/or cooking, or antiheroes and grimness.

05-05-2012, 12:10 PM	#1
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	Whither SF? I've run into a couple of blogs lately on the future of SF/F: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_12/ by Elizabeth Bear, which spawned this by Abi Sutherland on Making Light: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight...79.html#013879 Which spawned these thoughts on how ebooks are changing the future of SF as a genre by Charlie Stross http://www.antipope.org/charlie/ which led to this link on why so many people are reading YA these days rather than litfic. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...804387216.html I'd love to read any comments people here would have. Me, other than select authors, I've pretty much stopped reading most SFF because it's all so grim. And it seems like there are two kinds of mysteries these days: cute cozies that relate to cats, bookstores, and/or cooking, or antiheroes and grimness.