You do not have to do this.

You are absolved.

You and your career are far, far better served by reading the current market, reading broadly from living writers, and from refusing to submit to anybody’s purity test over Dune or Vernor Vinge or Ender’s Game.

I did the reading so you don’t have to.

We are in a new golden age. One where SFFH is variegated and diverse and spectacular.

The classics of genre are like those old cookbooks you see in screenshots: some timeless dishes, LOTS of jello salad and ham wrapped around bananas.

Close those yellowed old pages and invite yourself to a fresh feast.