I'm not a member of SFWA, and at this rate probably never will be, so I'm not entering into any debates, and have nothing to say on whether or not the Nebulas need splitting. I just think it's an interesting debate that has merit outside the particular sphere of the Nebulas and SFWA.
No kidding; I've never read the Pern books and probably never will (heard too much about too many problematic things in them), but I can believe they were pushing those boundaries.
Genres as a whole are really more fluid than many people seem to think; we're almost always writing or reading books that can be classified under any number of genre umbrellas. With all the creativity going on in the fantasy genre right now, I don't understand how people can just write it off as "elves and fairies" and nothing more.
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Date: 2013-02-01 04:33 pm (UTC)No kidding; I've never read the Pern books and probably never will (heard too much about too many problematic things in them), but I can believe they were pushing those boundaries.
Genres as a whole are really more fluid than many people seem to think; we're almost always writing or reading books that can be classified under any number of genre umbrellas. With all the creativity going on in the fantasy genre right now, I don't understand how people can just write it off as "elves and fairies" and nothing more.