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golden age

What Happened to Sci Fi?

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Sci Fi Golden Age

Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Amelia Faulkner: How Science Fiction used to be a risk-taking progressive genre, and now it’s become a relatively conservative one…. Hmmm… we could go a number of directions here. Has sci fi lost its tech mojo because we have become such a tech heavy society? You know, all those things that used to seem so whiz-bang that we now carry around on our wrists and in our pockets? Has sci fi become less daring in holding a mirror up to our society? Witness the sad puppies and their attempt to pull us back to … Read more

Back to the Gay Future

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When I was a kid, my stepfather amassed an amazing collection of science fiction magazines. He had so many that he had his room lined in bookcases to hold them all. The covers seemed to be sending me messages, hot gay messages. Most of these covers were in my stepfather’s collection. Might as well start with the ne plus ultra of crypto-homo covers. Could have been one of my father’s Physique Pictorials. But that’s another story… Full Story at The Advocate