New story!

[jethrien]

I have a new story in this month's Allegory magazine: http://www.allegoryezine.com/mainpage.htm#Story11

Enjoy!

Comments

[elissali11]

Actually, I think that's a really insightful observation about the markets...

I was just thinking about it, because my parents and I went to Silicon Valley Comic-Con a few weekends ago, and I was remembering the kind of optimistic speculative fiction that I watched as a kid, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I was thinking about how so much speculative fiction now is dark, or morally ambiguous, or gritty... I sort of think it's the zeitgeist. Technology won't save us, and humans are cruel and horrible. We are globally messing up our planet and the people with the money can't see it and keep their money so they won't see it.

I'm hoping at some point we'll shift back towards optimism, maybe? or realism with a forward-looking slant?

[jethrien]

I think it's actually more of a tilt in the short story magazines. It's easier to turn out grim things that seem profound, and much harder to turn out profound optimism. I've gotten lighter stories into anthologies. And I think a lot of novels have more lightness to them. Novels are somehow more acceptable to be just entertaining, whereas a lot of the short story markets are going more for artistic.

[elissali11]

That makes a lot of sense. I always value your insight - thank you for sharing!