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i'm just not identifying with all the angst and weeping/gnashing of teeth anymore.
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I guess I'm just not running into as much of that as everybody else seems to be in my reading. I look for a balance of everything that real life has to offer in my fiction (science- or otherwise): sadness, happiness, humor, horror, atrocity, tenderness redemption, conflict, epiphany, resolution, losing and winning. I want all of that. I don't want
any of those elements filtered or artificially augmented. All optimism makes just as awful a story as complete pessimism does. Ups/downs, highs/lows—aren't these things
all needed to tell a good story? Don't the good guys have to lose sometimes in order for good-guy/bad-guy to have any meaning at all?
So my question is; where is all this total bleakness and pessimism that everybody is telling me has taken over the genre? Cause I'm just not seeing it. I'm seeing an entire gamut from humor to horror. I'm seeing more variety/choices in the genre than we've ever had at anytime in the past, to tell you the truth.