I'm reading through the Clarke Award nominees, and I'm getting very tired of all the wallowing in dystopian futures that have been constructed solely to indict the trajectory of the present.
Like, I get it, SF is and has always been political. And that's fine! But can we please have a STORY as well? And fewer footnotes referencing Supreme Court case outrages?
@ergative@bookstodon@books ah yes, this one of my bugbears too! I don’t want to be preached at, I want a good story. And any good story will have things to say - but no story and I’ll stop reading.