Oh, yes. Google “Sad Puppies” sometime for the whole sordid story. For Golden Age flavor, I recommend John C. Wright, (sometimes) Evan Currie, and a good chunk of the Kindle Unlimited sci-fi section. Declan Finn looks pretty good so far, though he’s more in the urban fantasy department. Lots and lots of independent authors are self-publishing to get around the wokies. “Superversive” and “human wave” are a couple good keywords to surf on if you’re looking for non-nihilistic SJW work.
Thanks for that informative post. I deliberately swore off SF a long time ago after actually closely tied to the field myself for decades.
Try Doug Dandridge and Christopher Nuttall. I’ve enjoyed a lot of their stuff.
John C. Wright is good stuff.
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