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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 21:33:11 JST Charlie Stross

   #WritersCoffeeClub 15th May 2025. “The past is a foreign country.” What facets of your work do you hope remain intelligible to future readers?

   I write SF/F, which AS A GENRE is very much an artefact of its time—before 1910 it was part of ordinary literature, and SF as I knew it growing up in the 1970s-80s is turning into something else.

   I'm writing for readers who are notionally 20-40 years younger than me. I don't expect anyone but scholars to be reading my books in 50 years, though.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 21:33:08 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Phosphenes

     @Phosphenes The center of gravity of the genre has slid away from the cishet white men (and good riddance). Diversity is good! But also, I'm coming up very short of rigorous extrapolative SF that isn't also barkingly reactionary shite (the right wing absorbed hard SF). And then … I burned out on the genre, too: I don't read much of it any more, it's mostly not speaking to my interests (which remain with the field, but not of it).

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     Phosphenes (phosphenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 21:33:09 JST Phosphenes

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     >SF as I knew it growing up in the 1970s-80s is turning into something else.

     What is it turning into? I'm out of touch with it these days.

     Peter Krefting repeated this.