I was asked, along with the rest of the authors in Seeds of Change to make sug­ges­tions for change in the field of sci­ence fic­tion.  Regular read­ers can prob­a­bly guess exactly what I said, but check it out and see what you think.   Not as rev­o­lu­tion­ary as I might have been in my youth, but still call­ing for big changes.

There are a lot of things I wouldn’t mind see­ing changed in sci­ence fic­tion, but they mostly revolve around grow­ing the audi­ence. I am most inter­ested in cre­at­ing ways for peo­ple who would like sci­ence fic­tion short fic­tion to learn that it even exists. At one time, the defunct mag­a­zine SF Age had nearly 175,000 in sales of a sin­gle issue. The largest cir­cu­la­tion of any mag­a­zine is barely over 20,000 today and has been falling for nearly a decade.

That’s prob­a­bly the last thing I’ll say on the issue of the mag­a­zines for a while.  I’m going to focus my energy on get­ting my work inside of them, instead of wor­ry­ing about sav­ing them.  It’s wasted energy at this point and has become just another way for me to focus on the wrong things.

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