Class to the last, guys.

[mme_hardy]

Via james_nicoll:

E. Catherine Tobler tells us that the current issue of F&SF has only male authors. 

And guess what the theme of this issue is?

The issue reacts to Internet intolerance of difference by gathering what the editor describes as “stories that deal with touchy themes or go beyond the bounds of Political Correctness.” In other words, the issue contains stories selected for their potential to offend. The issue reflects an editorial decision to present thought provoking subjects and perspectives in the full knowledge some of the stories have the potential to elicit negative responses.

Ohhhhhhhhh.

Let it blaze!  Let it blaze!  For we have done with this "education"!

Comments

[recessional]

INTERNETS YOU SO INTOLERANT

OLD MAN YELL AT CLOUD

[sara]

Y'know, it's great that there are so many genre fiction magazines out there now that aren't edited by assholes, because it means we don't have to feel like we don't have anywhere to spend our money except with troglodytes.

[legionseagle]

Given how much Nicoll gives space to that sort of people in comments to his posts, I'm surprised even he's got the hypocrisy to comment on it, frankly.

[emceeaich]

What, they find an unpublished John Norman story?

[vom_marlowe]

That kind of issue is a dog whistle. We've thought about this stuff, and we've decided: Bros before hos.

Just my .02.

[cofax7]

reacts to Internet intolerance

Well, I don't need to read any farther than that, do I. Are the authors Shetterly, Resnick, and Correia, per chance?

[mme_hardy]

Nope. They do have "Justin Barbeau’s third-person presentation “Nanabojou at the World’s Fair” depicts a native American deity seeking work at the 1904 World’s Fair".

I can see no way this could go horribly, semi-truck over the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge, wrong.