Where are today’s Han Solos, Mad Maxs and Capt. Kirks?
Nowhere,
All males (especially white males) are reduced to subservient whiners.
Instead of strong Alpha male role models all we get is Sarah Connor and Captn. Janeway over & over again.
Just look at V, manly man Marc Singer (A.K.A. The Beastmaster) and Micheal Ironside in the 1980s series were replaced by Murphy Brown in the new, also instead of white guy Freddie Kruger, the 5th columnist is a black guy, the women mouthpiece traitor reporter is now a white guy, the whole Jewish Holocaust thing is missing.
In the new Battletstar Galatica, Starbuck is now a chick and Apollo is the whiny male bee-atch and they created a whole new female teacher president role for Capt. Adama to be subservient to
The Terminator, John Connor when from a hard nose tough kid in II, to a whiny male bee-atch in III.
and on and on and on.
That's why Sci-Fi is bombing, there are no male role models for men & boys to relate to and once the “Wow she’s really hot” factor wears off, watching a 90lb waif beat up 250+ pound men gets old real fast and Scifi becomes unwatchable.
There’s our author Larry Correia. Monter Hunters International rocks! I am eagerly awaiting his next book.
RS
“When the population is divided in half, and ten outlets are competing for one half, and one outlet is competing for the other half … well, duh.
IF one newspaper in the country was able to 'do the math' they'd be winners... too bad that's not going to happen.
Would LOVE to know how agents fit into the mix. I wrote a novel with a strong, traditional male lead and I swear 90 percent of the rejections seem to be somehow associated with the fact that (guessing based on gender of agents listed in “Writers Market”) 75% of the agents are liberal females.
Tons and tons of cheesy, derivative swords-and-magic fantasy.
Tons and tons of vampires, zombies, werewolves and vampire/zombie/werewolf crossovers (although I did like "World War Z" a lot).
Tons and tons of TV/movie spinoff books.
Yeccch. When I was in high school and college I belonged to the Science Fiction Book Club, they had 20-30 new science fiction titles every month. Picked up their current flyer recently and I doubt that there were ten new SF books, but tons and tons of all the above.
Thanks for this Post!
As noted by a few others, Baen Books tend towards the Conservative/Libertarian philosophy. If anyone wants to sample some of their stuff, I highly recommend http://baen.com/library/ , which is a free library of many of the books.
Personally, I think the writer is just going to the “right” place – Baen Books. There is plenty of lefty, eco-catastrophic SF out on the market, you just won’t find any of it published by Baen (THANK YOU, Terri Weisskopf!).
SF Books on official US Military Reading lists:
Navy - Starship Troopers, Ender’s Game
Marines - Starship Troopers, Ender’s Game
Why does a writer like Jerry Pournelle, who writes about advanced technologies like ramscoops and ringworlds still use a 1997-looking Netscape HTML blog?!
Me? I'll only be able to publish my writings if I go the self-publish to Kindle route, I think.
There are still a lot of commies in the SF community.
Many of the classics like Arthur C. Clarke are commies. Eric Flint is a former union organizer who now writes for the Baen stable. He’s a pretty reasonable commie, though. Supports RKBA, and bunch of other reasonable stuff. David Weber says that the only thing he disagrees with him over is ownership of natural resources. Or something like that.
The SF that I have mostly read has always been Center-Right.
For years I was involved organized SF Fandom, got to know a lot of authors on a “face” basis; and what really astounded me as I grew older was the fact that about 95% of all the people in the clubs and who attended the Cons were hardcore flaming liberals.
How does one read a steady diet of stuff like “Starship Troopers”, “Have Spacesuit will Trave” or “Footfall” & “The Mote in God’s Eye” and stay a liberal?