[angry_moose]

The place I most notice it is the Hugo nominations.

Pre-2010 its almost exclusively a White Male author club.

2010-2016 seemed to be a fairly decent balance.

2017 and later there's basically been no White Males. Scalzi seems to be "grandfathered in" somehow with a few of nominations, then Andy Weir and Kim Stanley Robinson with 1 each. Certainly no millennial or younger either, as the article discusses.

The old status quo was bad, but even I have to admit its over-corrected a bit.

[jfengel]

The way I see it, I read sci-fi for different ways of looking at the world. I realized that I had stopped reading straight-white-male authors, not by design, but just because it always felt like I had read it before. Even the really "innovative" ones were innovating within a really narrow set of parameters.

I have no idea what criteria the Hugo nominators use. And it's certainly not up to me to yuck anybody else's yum. But I can say that I'm finding a lot to think about in books by authors who would likely be dismissed as "woke" based solely on their appearance.