Comments on: Short Story Competition http://www.hubfiction.com/2008/12/competition/ Free Weekly Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Fiction - SPONSORED BY SOLARIS Thu, 27 May 2010 16:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Colum Paget http://www.hubfiction.com/2008/12/competition/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Colum Paget Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:51 +0000 http://www.hubfiction.com/?p=83#comment-97 From this line: The genre faces stagnation. Fans who discovered SF in the Sixties and Seventies are now actively resisting the very progress that they embraced when they were younger, This reads to me as a call to arms. This is exactly what I think is going on in the genre. The last really exciting thing to happen in SF was cyberpunk, and the old guard fought like hell against that. And cyberpunk itself is now 20 years old. Since then, what? New weird? Hmm.. is it really SF? Steampunk? Well, that was more fun first time around, when Wells and Verne and Shelley did it. Indeed, the fact that the new movements in SF are reselling our great-grandparents dreams to us, shows how big the problem is. I'd love to hear more of what the Hub team think about this, because I agree with what's written here (and we all like to hear our own opinions confirmed ;-) ). Colum From this line:
The genre faces stagnation. Fans who discovered SF in the Sixties and Seventies are now actively resisting the very progress that they embraced when they were younger,

This reads to me as a call to arms. This is exactly what I think is going on in the genre. The last really exciting thing to happen in SF was cyberpunk, and the old guard fought like hell against that. And cyberpunk itself is now 20 years old. Since then, what? New weird? Hmm.. is it really SF? Steampunk? Well, that was more fun first time around, when Wells and Verne and Shelley did it. Indeed, the fact that the new movements in SF are reselling our great-grandparents dreams to us, shows how big the problem is.

I’d love to hear more of what the Hub team think about this, because I agree with what’s written here (and we all like to hear our own opinions confirmed ;-) ).

Colum

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