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Monday, June 24, 2013

The future of SciFi publishing

While reading a blog article about the latest PC kerflufle taking place within the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), one of the more lengthy comments by a B Lewis I found rather interesting, talking about why they believe that "Mainstream SF is DOA" and why he thinks independent publication if where the future is at....

"Almost all mainstream SF authors now have to convince a merciliess gauntlet of editorial Red Guards that their creative content does not promote white supremacy, white privilege, phallocracy, or the Christo-capitalist exploitation of workers, wymyn, blacks, People of Color, Women of Cover, Muslims, Jews, animals, or any member of the LGBTI2LS/MFTOMGWTFBBQ Rainbow of Victimhood. Any deviation from Mao Zedong Thought and it’s no bookshelf for you, you racist, homophobic oppressor of the masses!"

Link to the comment is here.


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posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 14:39

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Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

I agree wholeheartedly. I believe that self-publishing at Amazon and other outlets will be nearly equal to the Gutenberg press in long-term ramifications.

The best thing about the internet is that the harder the self-appointed social monitors and cultural censors try to control the opinions of the population, the more quickly they fail. Self-publishing, printed guns (and anything else you can imagine), distributed computing, instantaneous social media, a 24-minute news cycle... The internet is a dictator's worst nightmare. Just ask the Chinese leadership how that whole Censor The Entire Intarwebz thing is working out for them.

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