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I have decided to tweet a few excerpts from what would be a gigantic thread about My “Classic” Sci-fi Opinions so buckle up folks
1) most of the really old classic sci-fi is no longer relevant to a modern person’s daily experience and it’s absolutely ridiculous how a certain portion of the fandom acts like it’s heresy that someone in 2020 might not appreciate futurism from the 1950s
2) I am very much of the opinion that while you can’t remove the decades of influence that early popular authors and editors have had on the modern genre, the fact that so many of the authors who were KNOWN PREDATORS have not had their legacy tarnished by this is NOT GOOD
3) “whining about how there aren’t many girls who like classic sci-fi” and “the way Heinle*n wrote women” are shockingly very much related
4) it’s absolutely fucked that if I want to talk shit about Heinle*n or As*mov long after their deaths, I have to censor their names because I don’t want the very fun experience of a bunch of chuds screaming in my mentions. this has happened to me before
5) if you want to recommend someone “classic” sci-fi and your list doesn’t include Octavia Butler or Ursula K LeGuin, please fix your list, they’re absolutely delightful
6) Dune is all sorts of a mess and yet I love it anyway. I make no apologies for this.
7) I like military sci-fi and this should be obvious but when I see someone who ONLY engages with military sci-fi I want to not engage with them
8) just because there are MORE types of sf/f being written now than in 1956, by more kinds of authors, and read by more kinds of people, does not mean anyone is going to BAN the old stuff or that you can’t write something indistinguishable from the sort of thing popular in 1956
It might not sell as well now as it would have in 1956 but that’s media trends for you; it sure isn’t “feminists are taking away my military sci-fi”
9) I have even more opinions than this but I am on the tail end of a migraine and don’t feel like fighting anyone online so you’ll have to just guess what my opinions on even more controversial topics are 
