Science fiction -
Even before coming across this site, just from glancing at the TV shows coming out, I knew that science fiction was extremely woke.
Not that I watch or read any of the new stuff coming out.
The goal is to rewrite history. Make whitey the scapegoat for everything bad in the world, and everyone else the victim.
Marxist infection is everywhere.
Science fiction -
I guess if any group should be expected to live in a fantasy world, this is it.
Science Fiction has been effeminate and faggotized for many years; Fantasy is even worse.
If you want SciFi that isn’t creepy and gross with all the queer crap, you have to look very carefully. The “military SciFi” genre is a good place to look. TV is a horrible place to look.
Yikes.....after reading that vision statement, I think maybe SFWA is helping heels-up write her word salads.....
“The SFWA is a trade organization for sci-fi writers.”
Sorry, you are obsolete. We have AI.
In the future they’ll look back at entertainment and wonder why there’s a big empty in the Woke years ,LOL
Heinlein and Drake were always my faves. I could at least undersrand where they were coming from and what they were driving at.
Herbert’s first three books of the Dune saga were as far as I got. I’ve enjoyed them to that point.
Original Series Star Trek is my first thought when I think of Trek at all. Next Generation was hit-and-miss for me. Anything afterwards felt like more of the same and didn’t hold my attention.
My tastes for either begin somewhere in the 1920’s and end, for the most part, in the 1980’s.
Screw them! I am not rewriting my science-fiction novel for DEI. Nor will I write any future ones with woke or DEI, except to make a mockery of it.
Put a fork in them.
New guardrails for general consumption fiction. Creativity now neutered.
I have an idea - these talent-less idiots can re-write the great Science Fiction but make all the characters thin-skinned sexual weirdos who stop in the midst of action and give a lecture readers and/or viewers on being WOKE and ‘tolerant’.
I have more science fiction books than the local library.
I have bought only a handful of them in the past few years.
Black trans scientists creating amazing new technology to explore the universe—now that is some amazing fiction.
Lol.
We should do exactly as they encourage and report this bigoted, hateful, and otherwise intolerant behavior of the SFWA against people of Caucasian descent to the SFWA. I trust they will take firm action and investigate themselves immediately. Should be an easy start as their head is already up their own ass.
See Something? Say Something! Let's get to it! Report them at dei@sfwa.org, today!
The Screenplay contests are doing the same push for DEI content then, in the same pitch, complaining that entries are very low this season. Duh.
No surprise here. I love sci-fi and I collect it when I can but I stop at about the mid 80’s stuff and only go after the classics (40s thru 70s). I have plenty to read until I die so I don’t give a rats tush for this DEI crud.
They have been doing this for years through the publishers and awards like the Hugos and Nebulas. If you want decent SF, check out the annual nominations for the Prometheus Awards.
SFWA is slow. RWA (Romance Writers of American) made a similar announcement in late 2020. Recently they got their panties in a twist because one of their members refused to update an older novel to agree with current wokeness standards. They encourage writers to hire special editors to make sure skin tones, eye colors. and hair colors aren’t described as food (chocolate, vanilla, beet red, etc). Luckily, not all romance writers or SFWA writers are members of those organizations.