[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Today so many are depressing lesbian propoganda.

Agreed. I don't read a lot of modern SF&F because so much of it seems to include sexual situations, not to advance the plot or help define characters, but just because the author wants to titillate (or prove they're "adult").

Those old SF guys invented a lot of things.

It's a long list, all right!

[JenB]

Yep! Robotics, psychohistory, waldoes, waterbeds, nuclear-powered spaceships, L5 colonies, weather control, interesting applications of quantum theory... put it this way; scientists might think up ways to maybe kill a cat, but an SF writer would try it, just to see what would happen. Incidentally, what would happen if someone tried that Schroedinger experiment? I think it would be interesting to find out. It might destroy space-time as we know it.

[Corin Stormhands]

Agreed. I don't read a lot of modern SF&F because so much of it seems to include sexual situations, not to advance the plot or help define characters, but just because the author wants to titillate (or prove they're "adult").

I can't recall the author's name right now. But a few weeks back I picked up a new SF&F work at the library. On page 4 the main character's girlfriend told him to f-off. I went no further.

I mean, I'm certainly no prude, but it that was character development, I didn't want to get to know them.