Normally my book-choosing algorithm is pretty good; spec fic is a broad genre, what with the whole idea of "speculation." It's just that some authors have enough imagination to pull it off, and some don't. (Also, some authors are misogynistic douchebags.) You can't always tell from the book jacket, so you've got to open the book and find out for yourself. And for some reason, a lot of the lousy authors in any genre (and a few of the good ones) like to fling that trope around because it's GRITTY or TITILLATING without being part of the story. That's the frustrating part.
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Date: 2010-03-12 10:02 am (UTC)Normally my book-choosing algorithm is pretty good; spec fic is a broad genre, what with the whole idea of "speculation." It's just that some authors have enough imagination to pull it off, and some don't. (Also, some authors are misogynistic douchebags.) You can't always tell from the book jacket, so you've got to open the book and find out for yourself. And for some reason, a lot of the lousy authors in any genre (and a few of the good ones) like to fling that trope around because it's GRITTY or TITILLATING without being part of the story. That's the frustrating part.