Outsourcing
Feb. 14th, 2007 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollI understand why SF (in the narrow sense), such as it is, is increasing dominated by Commonwealthers [1] but why the heck is the Prometheus Award increasingly dominated by non-Americans? I mean, four of the awards since 1996 have gone to a (former, if you think people get over that kind of thing [2]) Trot. Is American native-born Libertoonie SF a doomed subgenre?
1: The short version is Americans have no future. The long version is that they _think_ they have no future. I don't blame any one faction: for every Lefty tree-hugger insisting that the US adopt a strict policy of self-flagellation and poverty, there's a Neo-Con insisting that the US is about to go under a great brown tide of Themness.
2: If you don't, then Jerry Pournelle is a suspected Communist. Just saying. I'd keep an eye on him for symptoms like a fondess for May Day Parades.
1: The short version is Americans have no future. The long version is that they _think_ they have no future. I don't blame any one faction: for every Lefty tree-hugger insisting that the US adopt a strict policy of self-flagellation and poverty, there's a Neo-Con insisting that the US is about to go under a great brown tide of Themness.
2: If you don't, then Jerry Pournelle is a suspected Communist. Just saying. I'd keep an eye on him for symptoms like a fondess for May Day Parades.
