Multi-award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives our favorite literary realm a much-needed talking to over at clarksworldmagazine.com about how science fiction has come to take itself much too seriously lately, its obsession with worlds Dark, Depressive and Generally Ill-Humored and what that’s doing to her relationship with the genre. Much writerly food for thought here for anyone with an interest in broadening the audience for SF. Plus… she’s pretty dang funny. What’s your take? Had enough of hollow-eyed guys in rags shuffling down the grey, post-calamity tarmac pushing their traumatized kid in a shopping cart? The Road was brilliant-scary, IMO. And, hey, the kid survives, more or less, in the end. But do we need a little more optimism in the worlds that SF&F writers are building? Weigh in….
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