[I pseudo-blog about issues when the planets align just so]

[elliptic_eye]

Why, what should be at the top of my DW read list:

Why, yes, you do seem to be made of fail today, Mr. di Filippo. Now, I cannot claim to read widely in SF of late. I spend way too much time variously goofing off in fandom and writing shitty essays for grad school applications. If I were an editor specializing in a the genre, though, I'd go out

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[prof_pangaea]

or how James Blish ever came to be among them

lolol MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

as for the rest... yeah. "i'm not biased towards women!" ahahaha yeah, that's pretty obvious, mike.

[elliptic_eye]

I remember reading things of Blish's and thinking, "Wow, this guy has really stilted prose. I bet I could do better than that." When I was ten.

"ahahaha yeah, that's pretty obvious, mike."

I bet editors' preconceptions about who can or cannot write what never have anything to do with how easy it is to get published in certain fields, like, ever.