Reports of death, greatly exaggerated
Apparently there is cries in some quarters of SF B DED (sometimes pointing the finger at creeping PLYTIKLE KREKTNIS).
Can only remark that, if so, SF is like King Charles, walks and talks half an hour after having head cut off.*
Voila the absolutely record number of submissions for the Arthur C Clarke Award, well into 3 figures. And that is only works first published in UK last year that were actually submitted by the relevant publishers.
This is possibly yet another example of people assuming that something is DED when in fact it has mutated &/or diversified and maybe looks different from what they expect.
E.g. the alleged death of feminism after the (limited) grant of the suffrage. Okay, not mass demonstrations, suffragettes smashing glass, burning things, slashing paintings and running in front of the King's horse, imprisonment, force-feeding, etc. Apart from the continuing campaign for votes on the same terms as men (this did not Just Happen in 1928 with the 'flapper vote') newly enfranchised women were fighting for a range of causes, which had either been somewhat occluded by the struggle for suffrage, or were things they felt they could now move on to (e.g. birth control.)
See also, an older post of mine on claims that conversation is dead.
*In case anyone was not brought up on that example of the importance of correct punctuation 'King Charles walked and talked half an hour after he had his head cut off'.
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