The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing Science Fiction...
...and why I sometimes feel this epic disconnect between the way I perceive Science Fiction, and the way the Science Fiction community perceives me:
I came across this epic story of fail through calapine's LJ and I get tired just thinking about it, but I'm still going to make this post because there seems to be a strangely prevalent idea going around, in certain quarters, that if you don't complain about it, it didn't happen.
So here it goes.
Dear Anthologist (who, in this case, is Mike Ashley).
A bumper book of science fiction short stories that is completely devoid of female and PoC authors is always going to be looked at with a jaundiced eye . Your criteria for story selection seems to be completely based on your own, limited, world view, and I politely suggest that maybe you should take your blinkers off, and take a good look at all the fabulous authors you failed to read, or skimmed over, in your eagerness to stuff your book with your tired tried and true favourites.
Not so much mindblowing, as mindnarrowing, which is ironic when you consider the genre we're discussing.
Links:
silk_noir's post about the subject leads to Mike Ashley replying in the comments
The Angry Black Woman is not amused
SF Signal: Where the debate about the short story choices started, as far as I can make out.
I came across this epic story of fail through calapine's LJ and I get tired just thinking about it, but I'm still going to make this post because there seems to be a strangely prevalent idea going around, in certain quarters, that if you don't complain about it, it didn't happen.
So here it goes.
Dear Anthologist (who, in this case, is Mike Ashley).
A bumper book of science fiction short stories that is completely devoid of female and PoC authors is always going to be looked at with a jaundiced eye . Your criteria for story selection seems to be completely based on your own, limited, world view, and I politely suggest that maybe you should take your blinkers off, and take a good look at all the fabulous authors you failed to read, or skimmed over, in your eagerness to stuff your book with your tired tried and true favourites.
Not so much mindblowing, as mindnarrowing, which is ironic when you consider the genre we're discussing.
Links:
silk_noir's post about the subject leads to Mike Ashley replying in the comments
The Angry Black Woman is not amused
SF Signal: Where the debate about the short story choices started, as far as I can make out.