We hope we see you again soon, till then here’s a SF quote to ponder on.
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Greetings ,
starting in 2026 ๐ The Science Fiction Book Club, the Galaxy’s Greatest Book Club, will now be reading a handful of the best SF SelfPub novels each year.
If anyone imagines only the very best SF novels written appear in book shops they’re sadly misinformed. An endless number of amazing SF novels have been written over the years but got tragically overlooked by the publishing industry for a variety of reasons including the taste, personal politics, as well as good old-fashioned economics, of each and every publishing professional. Sadly Science Fiction is still the unloved left-handed ginger haemophiliac stepchild of literature.
But over the last 10-15 years almost all of the creative energy in SF has slowly shifted from the gatekeepers of TradPub to wild-west of SelfPub, leaving bookshops flooded with the current endemic Romantasy slop we see today.
That’s sad for book shops and a lot of readers, but not for us.
