[ SECRET POST #2557 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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Hard Sci Fi is not in the mainstream, you won't go to your local Barnes and Noble and see it advertised in the same way you might see Paranormal Romance or Medieval Fantasy, but it's still out there and more accessible than ever thanks to the internet.

Surprised no one's brought up Neil Stephenson, though his stuff is rarely about space. (Though Anathem DID have some space travel in it). While I'm not sure if John Scalzi is on the same level of scientific accuracy that say, Larry Niven is, his Old Man's War series has a good strong feel to it and reminds me of some of the old schoolers.

I'm personally too busy still catching up on said old schoolers to really worry about newer stuff. >_> I'm not a zero-sum person at all, I like pretty much everything (except medieval Tolkien or ASOIF style fantasy) depending on my mood. Lately I've really been into Space Opera stuff, but that'll probably change as soon as I feel saturated on it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm not zero-sum either (despite everyone calling me that all over the thread), I certainly don't want to deprive fantasy fans of their faves. I am just seeing a terrible imbalance. I did enjoy Robinson's Mars books, I'll have to look up the latest ones (thanks for the rec btw). Neither Stephenson's nor Scalzi's writing does anything for me, personally, though, sorry.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I gave up on Barnes and Noble a few years back when the Locus fantasy shorlists included Jemisin, Beukes, Karen Lord, and Okorafor and B&N stocked only one of them. (Jemisin's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which is a must-read fantasy novel for breaking many of the limits on other-world fantasy.)

The explosion of independent and micropublishers makes it a reader's market these days. I get my recommendations skimming SF Signal and Tor.com. Lightspeed publishes a nice diversity of short stories which has led to reading longer works by the authors.