MORE DoomyDoomDOoom with DOOooOOoom Sauce for HUGO!

[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.)

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[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Sneaking in very late here. I always feel like I'm the short kid on the outside of a bunch of older kids, hopping around and trying to see the full picture of what's so exciting. :) But at least I do learn things, namely that this New Wave is the reason I don't like much written past 1950!

[seawasp]

Well, the New Wave was just one part of it, and not *ALL* of the New Wave insisted on Doomy Doom.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I *did* get that impression from your discussion, but hey, you weren't writing a complete analysis. It's still true that I've enjoyed no more than 20% of what I've read from, say, the 50s and 60s magazines on the Gutenberg Project. Very definitely there was only one story I loved, that lead me to buy two books.