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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9281883" data-attributes="member: 7044704">We're inverted - I've come to enjoy old (principally 30s and 40s) pulp scifi the more I read of it, and with the pulp era largely available free online these days I've been getting to do that a lot more of late.&nbsp; From a 2024 POV it's certainly an alien landscape even for someone born in the 60s, but the historical perspective of what they thought the future might be is fascinating, enough so to make up for all but the most inept of efforts to me.At the same time I find fewer modern books that I truly enjoy every year, and I blame a lot of it on the failing standards of editing at traditional publishing houses.&nbsp; The number of post-2000 books I've read that could have had their word count halved and been much the better for it is just depressing, and there are authors that I once loved who are no longer worth even looking at because the cannot work without a good editor cleaning up their manuscripts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9281883, member: 7044704"] We're inverted - I've come to enjoy old (principally 30s and 40s) pulp scifi the more I read of it, and with the pulp era largely available free online these days I've been getting to do that a lot more of late. From a 2024 POV it's certainly an alien landscape even for someone born in the 60s, but the historical perspective of what they thought the future might be is fascinating, enough so to make up for all but the most inept of efforts to me. At the same time I find fewer modern books that I truly enjoy every year, and I blame a lot of it on the failing standards of editing at traditional publishing houses. The number of post-2000 books I've read that could have had their word count halved and been much the better for it is just depressing, and there are authors that I once loved who are no longer worth even looking at because the cannot work without a good editor cleaning up their manuscripts. [/QUOTE]

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