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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9512285" data-attributes="member: 58172">It isnt that &quot;all literature is equal&quot;. It is that diverse approaches to fantasy are legitimate.Unless the list is sprawling and encyclopedic, any kind of &quot;abbreviated&quot; &quot;essential&quot; is defacto gatekeeping.For example, I was looking thru the Star Frontiers &quot;gate keeping&quot;. Some of the authors I love are there, like Asimov, Norton, and Bradbury. But some of the scifi authors I love are missing, like Stasheff. And some on the list I dont particularly care for.Meanwhile, most of the list is from a half a century ago. None of them are talking about accelerating technology, which is something scifi today needs to think about a.s.a.p.These tiny curated lists that are frozen on a page, dont seem helpful to play a game of D&amp;D today. Yeah, it is interesting, and even historically interesting. But DnDBeyond is a better place for this kind of thing. Even then, is a corporation willing to attach its reputation to authors from a previous century who are sometimes problematic?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9512285, member: 58172"] It isnt that "all literature is equal". It is that diverse approaches to fantasy are legitimate. Unless the list is sprawling and encyclopedic, any kind of "abbreviated" "essential" is defacto gatekeeping. For example, I was looking thru the Star Frontiers "gate keeping". Some of the authors I love are there, like Asimov, Norton, and Bradbury. But some of the scifi authors I love are missing, like Stasheff. And some on the list I dont particularly care for. Meanwhile, most of the list is from a half a century ago. None of them are talking about accelerating technology, which is something scifi today needs to think about a.s.a.p. These tiny curated lists that are frozen on a page, dont seem helpful to play a game of D&D today. Yeah, it is interesting, and even historically interesting. But DnDBeyond is a better place for this kind of thing. Even then, is a corporation willing to attach its reputation to authors from a previous century who are sometimes problematic? [/QUOTE]

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