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There are people who hear the word ‘sci-fi’ and first think ‘books/magazines.’ Then there are people who first think ‘movies/TV.’ After Star Wars I imagine the movie/TV thinking people really expanded even after all the sci-fi movies and shows up to that point.

There is great science fiction or speculative fiction being written, but it does get drowned out by the movie/TV side much more than the past. Then there is the complete lib wackaddooisation of the written side of things in recent years, making it even more difficult to sift through in order to find something good.

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Then there is the complete lib wackaddooisation of the written side of things in recent years, making it even more difficult to sift through in order to find something good.

"Wackaddooisation" infests the fantasy genre as well, which is one reason why I have mostly stopped reading it. Mercedes Lackey writes stuff that makes one stop, stare, and wonder. I've thrown her books across the room into walls.

One of her chief characters is a gay guy who is insufferably arrogant, but all is wonderful once he finally figures out he doesn't like girls, who throw themselves at him. Then it gets weird, as he repeatedly is used for stud duty by assorted women. He comes back in re-incarnated descendants, etc.

It is much, much worse than I have described.