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Originally Posted by darryl
This is where you lose me, I'm afraid. I find it incomprehensible that you can be "bored" and "turn off" a book because it happens to have a "hero" who is straight etc.
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A single book? Of course not. I wrote what I meant: it's when it's book after book after book that I get turned off. I am a fan of variety. I'm happy that I live in Australia, where we don't have a straight-white-man SF monoculture (or perception of same) that Harry refers to, not in fandom or in authors or in our local awards.
I don't actually believe that such a monoculture exists elsewhere, either (though I understand Australia has had particularly good representation of women as fantasy authors compared to elsewhere). If you're seeing a sea of one particular type of person in fandom, you're either not looking at all of fandom, or you're not seeing what's in front of you.
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What I want is a great read, irrespective of the hero or protagonist or any other characters. You can miss out on a lot of good reading if you exclude this class of books from those you read, just as those who confine their reading to this class of books miss out.
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I don't exclude any particular class of books from my reading. I do, however, think that it's generally not a good idea to exclude particular classes of characters from one's writing. It's as simple as that.