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Jan. 5th, 2010 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlI've just canceled my Science Fiction Book Club membership. Yeah, I wasn't buying anything from them for the past year, and the writers I *was* reading are either slowing up on their releases or have "lost it" with their writing (King, lookin' at you, dear), and frankly...well...there's not a whole hell of a lot in the genres of SF/F that I'm interested in reading these days. I haven't come across a writer that I'm excited about. I haven't come across a *character* I'm excited about, nor the stories that I'd like to sink myself into. I walk through the bookstores and wonder, where the hell have all the good, noncliche stories gone? And where are the stories about women who are NOT kick-butt awesome ball-kickers who are dominated by guys who just want a good pussy-cat to slip their fingers into? Seriously?
I suppose there are some out there, and I'm not looking hard enough, but baby, the magic's just about gone. The publishers are like double-dippers and have soured up their publishing pool. At least the big ones. Same covers by the same artists. Same writers writing the same shit. Other writers writing what the earlier writers have already written.
Ah well. Maybe 2010 will be different. In the meantime, I may start reading biographies and nonfiction and stuff that doesn't stick into a 12 inch deep rut.
I suppose there are some out there, and I'm not looking hard enough, but baby, the magic's just about gone. The publishers are like double-dippers and have soured up their publishing pool. At least the big ones. Same covers by the same artists. Same writers writing the same shit. Other writers writing what the earlier writers have already written.
Ah well. Maybe 2010 will be different. In the meantime, I may start reading biographies and nonfiction and stuff that doesn't stick into a 12 inch deep rut.
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Date: 2010-01-15 04:18 am (UTC)THAT is what I'm talking about. I can't walk through Borders without being assailed by dozens of covers by two or three artists, and ALL the covers looking roughly the same (with some exceptions).
Outside that subgenre...oh man. Going by the blurbs on the backs of the books, I've already READ those books. Twenty years ago or so, or ten years ago.
I'm jaded, cynical and read way too much when I was younger.
Hmm. I haven't read Neuromancer or Snow Crash. Maybe I should read those. Except-oh yes, I *did* read Neuromancer when it came out and was like, Huh? Maybe I could get through the denseness of it now. Hated Dhalgren with a passion. Damned circular novel, completely lost on me and frustrated the hell out of me.