Thanks so much for this writeup! I have been waiting for you to post about this panel & love how reliable you are about doing so.
I also appreciate your analysis of the panel. I found it quite frustrating, although also with some moments that were very useful. I do think something important is happening in Wisconsin, and in lots of other places as well, but I was hoping we might get to join the dots between that and other issues/locations/concerns.
"China Mieville" is not a subgenre.
Ha. But that's an interesting question... My feeling is that politically aware sf is sort of its own subgenre, one I get to stay in touch with mainly through WisCon. The leftist utopian tradition is one of the things I was alluding to on the panel when I talked about histories for sf other than the US-pulp tradition, but I don't know that it has obviously separable heirs in current fiction. But it would be interesting to see if PM Press's new line of sf has noticeable leanings toward particular subgenres!
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I also appreciate your analysis of the panel. I found it quite frustrating, although also with some moments that were very useful. I do think something important is happening in Wisconsin, and in lots of other places as well, but I was hoping we might get to join the dots between that and other issues/locations/concerns.
"China Mieville" is not a subgenre.
Ha. But that's an interesting question... My feeling is that politically aware sf is sort of its own subgenre, one I get to stay in touch with mainly through WisCon. The leftist utopian tradition is one of the things I was alluding to on the panel when I talked about histories for sf other than the US-pulp tradition, but I don't know that it has obviously separable heirs in current fiction. But it would be interesting to see if PM Press's new line of sf has noticeable leanings toward particular subgenres!