I can see StellarCon staying a similar size or getting smaller--they have a steady influx of college students, after all, and college students are in charge of it. Presumably they know what their peers are into. This year there were a couple Hunger Games panels.
"Adapt or die" pretty much sums up the state of SFF fandom (and publishing) right now. The crusty old farts (and less-old farts) who don't want those queer brown girls ruining their fandom are either going to persist in their little corner or die out, because those of us who think that books starring characters who aren't white nor American nor male are groovy aren't going anywhere.
I mean, I love some of the books in Baen's catalog, but it's definitely skewed to a demographic that, to put it mildly, would prefer that people like me didn't exist. Even the books that aren't a hard-right-wing power fantasy are full of straight, presumably-white, American-ish dudes. *sigh*
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Date: 2012-06-02 10:07 pm (UTC)From:"Adapt or die" pretty much sums up the state of SFF fandom (and publishing) right now. The crusty old farts (and less-old farts) who don't want those queer brown girls ruining their fandom are either going to persist in their little corner or die out, because those of us who think that books starring characters who aren't white nor American nor male are groovy aren't going anywhere.
I mean, I love some of the books in Baen's catalog, but it's definitely skewed to a demographic that, to put it mildly, would prefer that people like me didn't exist. Even the books that aren't a hard-right-wing power fantasy are full of straight, presumably-white, American-ish dudes. *sigh*