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⌈ Secret Post #6232 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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Part of the problem, for me at least, is that a lot of the new stuff isn't so much indie as it is consciously trying not to be traditional stuff. It isn't fresh stuff, it is just a overly self conscious attempt to not be the franchised stuff. IYSWIM. It isn't the author going where their story goes, it is the author forcing the stories to not be like other stories. It is still all carefully constructed around franchised values, just trying not to be them instead of trying to be them. We've a ways to go yet to get truly indie fiction again.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk I see what you're saying but at the same time I've read a number of books in the last few years that I felt were such fresh takes. Travis Baldree, TJ Klune, Martha Wells, CM Waggoner, Becky Chambers - they maybe aren't reinventing the wheel or anything but the reason I liked their books were because it just felt fresh or different than what I'd been reading over and over again.

But I'm also not looking at this stuff in a scholarly literary way, if that makes sense. I just go by the feelings and satisfaction (or lack thereof) I get when reading. I could also be totally misinterpreting what y'all mean with looking for new indie or non-trad stuff.