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Okay, I'm trying to list what have been concluded so far:
- Less censorship.
- There's a whole bunch of "alpha billionaire" erotica/romance out there, and a lot of "how did you get out of elementary school without being able to write better than this" content in the same field, but there are a few smut peddlers who take pride in their work.
- (relative) new use of the written word: Flash Fiction, Slash Fiction, Text adventures, Depresion Quest, Visual Novels.
- Novels generally devotes less words to description. Fast paced novels were in poor taste earlier, but are now the norm.
- Novels takes inspiration from mainstream movie genres and tropes, and tries to write something akin to the visual language of movies.
- Good modern science fiction use much better characterizations than classic 1950's and 1960's stories. The genre is no longer ashamed of itself. More stories are character driven.
- Compare a SF novel from the 1940s to one printed today. There's a certain flavor to the older book, a "Golden Age feel" that differs sharply from the more modern work.
- Some genres evolve strong subgenres that did not really stand alone before. I am thinking of urban fantasy (e.g. The War for the Oaks or The Hollows series) and cyberpunk SF (e.g. Neuromancer or Snow Crash).
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