tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post8176888499992579835..comments2024-03-27T19:24:05.285-05:00Comments on Stupefying Stories Magazine: Discussion: Input Wanted~brbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-67025558423288339972018-11-16T22:32:07.584-06:002018-11-16T22:32:07.584-06:00I think this "niche-ee-ness" is a huge p...I think this "niche-ee-ness" is a huge problem in SF. It would almost be GOOD to return to say, a series of monoliths, lining the shore faced in one direction. At least people would LOOK in that direction and wonder what they were all were seeing.<br /><br />Instead, with "niche" writing (even more fragmented that Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror and Mysteries...) you really DON'T have to ever read about centaurs who live in trailer parks in Lagos, Nigeria and your view will be forever limited and narrowed to the ones who live in Alabama.<br /><br />Even adopting the phrase "speculative fiction" and lumping cyberpunk (yeah, there it is, I SAID IT!) together with biopunk just before it on the "niche-ee-ness" shelf, then dark fantasy; then eldritch cleaver fantasy...<br /><br />...is insane.<br /><br />The Science Fiction community doesn't have a single coherent thought between them and differently idea-ed writers CERTAINLY aren't considered by anyone who doesn't read in THAT niche...<br /><br />If SF and F and H had been this fragmented in the 1940s, I doubt that we'd have ever made it to the Moon. It would have been colonized by centaurs who used to live in trailer parks in Alabama.<br /><br />[end rant, leaving room]GuyStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-8896956265526868102018-11-16T07:08:16.551-06:002018-11-16T07:08:16.551-06:00Who's this young blade in the photo? I like.Who's this young blade in the photo? I like.Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17624068184395158629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-87364825194918932752018-11-14T19:18:26.468-06:002018-11-14T19:18:26.468-06:00Your prescience is a feature, not a bug. Consider...Your prescience is a feature, not a bug. Consider that you nailed it 13 years ago. It's not for the money. Why bother then? Writers are artists with a talent that needs to be exercised, and shared.<br />Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-41186055350582081502018-11-14T12:40:11.041-06:002018-11-14T12:40:11.041-06:00Hooey, hmmmm, yeah, exactly. I doubt I'll ever...Hooey, hmmmm, yeah, exactly. I doubt I'll ever crack into the Big Three (or is it 4 or more now?) because general interest story magazines are pretty meh stories for my personal tastes. (and, as for for my stories, it seems, the taste of the editor types at those places).<br /><br />Then there's Stupefying Stories, who, I hope, always takes on STUPEFYING STORIES.<br /><br />That's my niche.Mark Keigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057982108264843405noreply@blogger.com