[ SECRET POST #3547 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3547 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[feotakahari]

There's a disconnect I often run into with this argument, in that it seems like the people who're making it don't consume a lot of media where the author directly lectures the reader about what to believe. As a reader of science fiction and fantasy novels, I get directly lectured all the time, often about things that are morally repulsive, so I can't really set aside the "problematic" stuff unless I set aside actual parts of the text. If what's "problematic" is the creator's personal life, but that isn't a part of their fiction, it's much easier to just enjoy the fiction.

Maybe this is the difference between writers and actors. If an actor beats his wife, that doesn't mean his character will endorse wife-beating, because the actor doesn't write the script. A writer might come out with something about how you have to beat the broads to keep them in line.

[tabaqui]

I find this interesting. I have read a lot of sci-fi (and not quite as much fantasy), but don't recall being lectured about anything in any of them.

What sci-fi are you reading?

[(Anonymous)]

I give you this:

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2016/05/24/starshipsofa-no-437-jeffrey-ford/

[tabaqui]

Is this a podfic of a short story? I can't actually listen to that. What is it lecturing about?

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of older sci-fi works do this. Heinlein in particular stands out in my memory, but I can think of Zahn and even Asimov examples off the top of my head. A lot of authors wringing hard sci-fi wrote this was during the golden age.

Can't speak to fantasy, I generally avoid it like the plague so I don't know if this is science fiction specific.