Whoa what if DAY but NIGHT?? I bet THAT got you excited to read 900 pages of "queer feminist fantasy!"
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I don't understand this, actually. How come there's so many classics in the past, but nowadays all we get're r-slurred stories about oppreshun and annoying women?
Aren't we meant to have our modern masterpieces?
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In regards to fantasy, its mainly because almost all the modern fantasy authors are people who have only read fantasy and SciFi. To be a good author of any genre, and especially fantasy or SciFi, you need to be well read in all genres, even unrelated ones like romance and westerns.
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The foids writing "modern audiences" SFF have read other genres. The problem is they're trying to collapse all genres into the same thing. The queer feminist sci-fi is the same as the queer feminist fantasy is the same as the queer feminist historical novel is the same as the queer feminist contemporary fiction. They're all sort of connected to the author's life, but she's uninterested in the lives of others, so her work lacks true mass appeal outside of the insular Hugo clique.
The problem you're talking about is more of an issue for male nerds and neurodivergents creating endless permutations of the same SFF tropes, while having no connection to the real life experiences that gave rise to their original iterations. These guys' stories tend to be much lighter on themes and meaning; it's just le epic shit and convoluted worldbuilding without anything behind it. Those sorts of things used to be published more, but these days the foids from the previous paragraph have mostly crowded them out. The moids are more of an issue in anime and manga. Other than that, they're mostly confined in online containment zones.
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Many classics were not popular in their time
Time filters out the shit from eras past. There are many thousands of dogshit novels from the 1800s, but you won't see them in school and they're out of print
There's legitimately more stuff being published now than ever before (counting ebooks), so it's even harder to discover good stuff contemporaneously
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