There’s a distressing number of Sci fi and fantasy fans that don’t seem to actually understand the messages they try to convey, and then decry modern creators as going “woke” as if the genres weren’t woke to start with.
I’ll even throw comics fans into that. It’s amazing how many people will say they loved X-Men growing up and not realize they grew up to be Robert Kelley, William Stryker, or Graydon Creed.
I’m listening to the Hugos There podcast (only for the books I’ve read) and social commentary by the authors is central to several of their discussions
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