Thank you.

Most SF has no scientific aspects that aren't just fantasy mumbo jumbo. I would recommend The Fifth Season as fantasy, but it's not less SF than Star Trek is.

Hadn't heard that, if it happened it's not great and I would hope she would be better. I would certainly like a cite on it though.

She's really into calling racists racist, even when they protest. And she's not subtle when she does so. Other than that, I haven't heard anything objectionable.

I don't think that they're getting hated on by the same groups of people or to the same degree. It's more similar to the hate that Twilight got, which was way out of proportion for the hate it deserved and was primarily because it was a book directed at young women.

Imagine living in a world where only men like shitting on things that women take pleasure in. That would be a nicer world, but it's not our world.

Then what's the problem? If you enjoy the fan fiction keep reading what you like.

I'm currently reading Grey Lensman, a pulp SF serial from the late thirties. The pacing is miserable, everything goes too fast and the characters either barely exist, are paragons of virtue or are completely evil, no in between. I'm reading it more because it was influential than because I enjoy it even though it does have it's moments.

Compare that to a book I read earlier this year, A Memory Called Empire, published in 2019 which had brilliant pacing great characters and character development and a great plot.

You're just not picking good recent books and are picking good old books. It's not a trend in modern writing, just bad luck on your part.

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher was terrible. I knew it would be, because the first half of the book was terrible, but I enjoyed so many other Dresden Files books. Part of it was having gotten older, but it's still bad and my last Dresden Files book.

Swords and Deviltry By Fritz Leiber is also pretty bad. It's a different kind of bad, and I understand why it is less good to a modern reader such as myself, but Leiber wrote better stories twenty years before he published this one.

I have read both Galactic Patrol and The Skylark of Space because of Ryk E Spoor's Grand Central Arena.

Jaws and The Godfather are generally regarded this way.

Hard disagree. I don't need to read the entirety of Main Kampf to know that it's a piece of trash.

I don't need to finish a book to know that I hate it. I've only done it once, but the book deserved it.