Of course, members of “marginalized communities.” You throw that term in there and you’re REALLY sorry. It took me awhile to figure out what the heck they were doing which was so outrageous to such marginalized peoples, but I found out after some research.
Apparently, when a short story magazine or whatnot gets an award they have a max of 4 contributors listed on the ballot and/or receiving the actual phallic object they give out as a trophy.
In 2021 participation trophy era, now ALL people who worked on it in any capacity must get a trophy. That means the person in the office who got coffee for the person who packed the magazine to ship must get their award. I mean you can’t get much more marginalized than that, can you?
The spiral continues toward making this even more culturally irrelevant. That said, last I heard, Baen Books is really pushing to make a presence at this convention if it actually happens (remember, these are mostly geriatrics deathly afraid of the sniffles). It seems they put up a white flag and want to be accepted by the establishment more than fight them. Sounds a lot like Mitch McConnell.
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They should do that for Oscars too.
Although there are always some bright spots here and there, in general I think the last 20-30 years have been a cultural wasteland. Not that the previous 20-30 period was all that wonderful either. But I think it was better than today. Now we have very little to offer in term of culture and it’s just going to get worse.
I miss Heinlein
Gone back to old timey SF. Been so long sense I’ve read most of these authors that they seem like new books too me. Vance, Heinlein, Poul, Lem, Anderson, Asimov, anyone 30 years back or more. Some books. More books on tape. There are some good books on tape on Youtube if you can stomach the place. Search around.
Vox Popoli has been talking about this for some time.
Liberals have quotas for everything and conservatives are not part of the quotas.
I have many older science fiction books, short stories but not much from the 90’s. All before and going back to EE Doc Smith and his “Skylark” books from the 20’ and 30’s. Many of his story ideas ended up in the original Star Trek.
The star trek books that I saw in the 90’s were for the most part badly written and other science fiction writers were pushing the sjw type stories. Think Star Trek, the next generation early tv episodes.
I ended up throwing them out.
With the demise of bookstores I have not bought any science fiction books. I have downloaded some older books from decades ago for the kindle so I can read them as I have pretty much stopped buying paper books as I have too many now!
SF movies suck too!