The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing Science Fiction...

[jinxed_wood]

...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

Comments

[persiflage_1]

I *always* check the list of authors for anthologies, and if they're all white men the book stays firmly on the shelf!

[jinxed_wood]

Ditto!

[angeloblueflame]

Agreed! on the 'mindnarrowing'. Sometimes I can't get over the mentality of people who are still stuck in a loop from about 1950. What a bunch of cracker bs.

Also, a huge waste of trees for printing that thing, as far as I'm concerned. So I'm doubly offended, Mr. Ashley. mmmnnn-yuck. :(

[jinxed_wood]

It's definitely a weirdly narrow selection for an anthology! I genuinely can't understand the reasoning behind it.