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[seawasp]

Y'know, the Gloomy SF Is Better movement is now *FORTY YEARS OLD*. The original New Wavers are dead or reaching the end of their careers. Don't you think it's time to GIVE IT AN F'ING REST? I mean, really, picking WATERS OF MARS ,of ALL the Doctor Who you could have chosen?

Yes, I know. I'm USED to awards being given to the stuff that's worst, but it does get a bit WEARING after a while. Hell, it's not like the Grand Finale this year was all sweetness and light; it was pretty grim. But it didn't involve grade-A choice stupidity AS WELL as doomy doom dooOoooOooom.

(I can't judge most of the others, not having read 'em. But I know what Charles Stross writes, and I find it likely that there's a lot of doominess in it.)

Comments

[seawasp]

But like I said, this isn't just NOW spilling into fandom, it's part of something that seems to have been fairly common over at least the past 40 years (the so-called New Wave).

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

The usual point being to create an "If This Goes On..." scenario, take it deadly serious, and assume that everyone in the fictional universe is a complete idiot so that the world ends because nobody can find their left socks, or something like that :)

[murstein.livejournal.com]

No, it's not just now spilling over. But a reinforcement is, rather like when you're almost-but-not-quite over the flu, and are visited by someone infected with a completely different strain.