My take on this is that SF/fantasy is multimedia now. I can find good speculative fiction on TV. I posted about a Navajo-made short film about the Dene settling on Mars. And, of course, you can read it in novels--I'm not sure if magazines are still out there.
One thing you hit on is an elitism in SF fandom that I have always--ALWAYS--found alienating and offensive. I was griping about fans who dubbed themselves "fen" and everyone else as "mundanes" and pontificated about who is a "trufan" and who isn't. I wrote letters to friends while I was in high school about how repulsive I found this. That was my strongly-held opinion in high school and I've only become more assertive about it in my middle years.
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Date: 2015-11-29 03:48 am (UTC)One thing you hit on is an elitism in SF fandom that I have always--ALWAYS--found alienating and offensive. I was griping about fans who dubbed themselves "fen" and everyone else as "mundanes" and pontificated about who is a "trufan" and who isn't. I wrote letters to friends while I was in high school about how repulsive I found this. That was my strongly-held opinion in high school and I've only become more assertive about it in my middle years.