/lit/ - Literature

>>13403699
>why are so many of the books on the sci-fi list super soft sci-fi? is it hard to write a deeply sci-fi book?
I'll give my opinion on it. Most of the great scifi books were written by people who were first and foremost great authors who just happen to be telling a story that required a certain amount of science fiction to set the scene, and to give the story/characters the right parameters to put across the ideas that the author was trying to discuss through their writing.

With the general decline in art over the last 50 years or so (books, tv, movies, 'fine art' etc. all steadily becoming worse and worse) and the move towards a more commercialised view of publishing the 'great' authors were/are pushed aside in favour of ones who will pump out work consistently and appeal to a large audience. Hence, we end up with reddit-tier, slightly or fully autistic manchildren who are writing scifi books not because they're great writers with a transcendent message to get across that can only be done in a scifi setting, but because they pore over minutiae and world-building and magic systems and future tech and space colony politics and so on. The autist as author.

Aside from maybe Blindsight, I don't think there's been anything close to a masterpiece of hard scifi in a very long time. And hell, I genuinely love Blindsight but even I'll admit it's written by a cringey reddit author and suffers from a lot of poor writing tropes like 2D characters and shitty humour that reads like retards trying to imitate a mix of rick and morty and douglas adams.