[thom]

I assume you're joking, but hopefully everyone will be aware that Ian (M) Banks was woke as fuck, and Neil Stevenson and Peter F Hamilton continue the noble struggle of publishing through such minor imprints as HarperCollins and Random House.

[philwelch]

This is a bad faith response. Of course publishers aren’t going to drop established best-selling authors; alexitorg’s point is that these authors would not get the same chance if they were starting out today.

Also, I think Banks was more of an old fashioned utopian socialist, which is very different from “woke as fuck”.

[thom]

I guess it's at least some comfort that Banks didn't have to live to see a world where a white man couldn't publish a series about gender-bending space communists.