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There's been a lot of pushback in recent years, and a lot of pressure to open up the genre to other voices-to the whole world rather than a single country, and within that country a single dominant ethnic and cultural group. Just look at how hard it is to get a 'Worldcon' going outside of the United States, and how much to-do there is when one actually happens. And yet there's a distinct sense within the genre that it's an American phenomenon, dominated by American writers, American readers and fans, and American publishers.

Science fiction is not an American invention, especially if you subscribe to the belief that the original science-fiction novel was written by a British woman, Mary Shelley. It's also a distinct problem in the science-fiction genre. (All right, I should say we, as a citizen of the country, living in that country, fighting the endless fight against all of this crap.) It's called American exceptionalism, and it's a worldwide problem.

Where unless one has access to time-travel technology, there really is no way for anyone in that universe to have ever heard of, let alone cared about, one very young country on a small planet in a minor solar system a fair ways out on a quite undistinguished, if rather pretty, galactic arm.Īmericans (even the term is indicative-what about Canada, Mexico, or all of Central and South America?) have this hammered-in conviction that they are the one, the best, the only, the center, the perfect embodiment of all that is. It is, after all, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Even Leia is American!' Because if you're not white and straight and either male or owned by a straight white male, how can you possibly be, you know, American? Because Black! Female! Noooooooooooo!īest/worst comment I saw on the subject was most hurt, hurt to the very butt, by the sheer unAmerican-ness of it all. The latest outrage du jour? Black protagonist! Female protagonist! Cue Luke in anguish: 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!' Wouldn't you know, just as I put up a Kickstarter for a space opera set a thousand years in the (non-white-American, non-male-dominated) future, a new trailer came out for the latest installment in that great movie space opera series, Star Wars-and the screaming broke the sound barrier.

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