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Well said, the term scifi is generally used by the people outside the genre in India too to refer to light sf works including pulp and visual forms.
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The reason I made that post about POC in scifi checking in was not specifically about Lois Bujold, which was why I did not link to her comments.
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There is far too much negative thinking in scifi today, in most cases it's more a failure of imagination.
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Taboos in scifi-fantasy fiction as asked of "writers" of this genre is the question, I am a reader, so I do not have to stick to the issue like a fly in a web.
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WTF is it with forest moons in scifi, anyway they seem to breed annoying cultures.
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Also, in scifi/fantasy covers it's really hard to divorce nostalgia from design when thinking of our favorite covers - some of these books, and covers, have such deep meaning to who we are as people, a lot of good designers have soft spots for laughably bad covers ... so I'm really glad you're asking for recent examples!
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It's partially the medium -- hardcore science scifi is always going to be better in words than on the screen, given the limitations of explaining technical minutia on a 40 minute show -- and partially a natural result of scifi gaining in popularity.
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I've seen people fix their mouths and fingers to attribute this lack of POC in scifi to such factors as Black and Latino families not 'valuing education.'
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I don't think scifi is becoming "feminized" but I thing looking at the female vs. male characters in modern entertainment (not just scifi) could be interesting.
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It seems like most of today's scifi is set in a world where scientific advances have permanently stopped.
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
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