Indeed. And actually, I'd go further than that, and argue that the good writers of SF/F are reading what is coming out now. They are engaging with fandom *as it is now*, the genre as it has matured and changed. Every now and then I attempt to read something that is meant to be genre by someone who typically writes elsewhere, and it is so far behind the conversation that is happening that I suspect that the author hasn't actually read anything in the field, they just think it is easy to write.
And there are a lot of classics that deserve to be ignored.
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Date: 29 Jul 2019 08:26 (UTC)And there are a lot of classics that deserve to be ignored.