I’ve read and loved good SF since childhood. Thanks to the loathsome present day SFWA, I scan what pile of excrement they’re awarding as an “avoid at all cost list” lest I lose my ability to think.
After all, who wants a story of a self-involved aware piece of gay trans software that’s in love with a garbage can identifying as a septic tank, but can only consummate by pressing CTL-ALT-DEL & the suckme button simultaneously?
After all, who wants a story of a self-involved aware piece of gay trans software ...
I enjoyed Arthur C. Clarke in my youth. He wrote some great stuff. Turned out, he was gay, which is why he moved to Sri Lanka. It was easier to be gay there than in Britain at the time.
But Clarke kept his sexuality out of his stories. He wrote about hard science, and his stories were intriguing.
If he'd been young today, he might have filled up all his novels with gay themes, and he would have written crap.