They've fixed most but not all of it for my Aqueduct Press book. Centuries Ago & Very Fast still doesn't show up on the list of my 14 best selling books, though its sales rank would otherwise make it my third selling item.
Amazon means to sell Bibles and butt plugs and to keep out of the culture wars by doing what they can to make the products one group wants invisible to the group that doesn't approve.
The adult classification appears to be here to stay, just not so hammer-handed and not such a problem for sales.
The only common thread is that publishers listed the books as glbt (as Aquaduct did for Centuries Ago and Very Fast. The book was not linked to Rebecca Ore the former Tor and Harper Collins SF writer, but came up on general searches just fine until sometime around the weekend. And had its rankings at least week before last or so. No customers had tagged the book. The book is now listed with my other work, but on the last page of the things by Rebecca Ore. Aqueduct and I complained about that and it was fixed as of Sunday night, but not completely un-"glitched."
No customer metatags were necessary for the rankings being dropped and the book not showing up in the general search.
My books always did sell better when they were labelled over 18 only, so I'm actually kinda amused.
Okay, folks, another one slipped through the cracks of being a freelancer without benefits and with a landlord who wanted him out of his apartment. I'm now working as a technical writer/editor in Northern Virginia to have something in my old age (it's worker owned), but maybe some of you know some folks in the foundations world, or some rich people, who could like, set up a fund to make life at the end a little easier for people who contributed that much to the field.
Enough people were reading his blog to know it was a slow suicide note. I don't know if an intervention could have helped, but Michael Swanwick's comment tonight was, "Even if he had to commit suicide, he shouldn't have had to worry about being evicted."
New Wave was the science fiction that the poets and artists in the Lower East Side were reading in 1971. Technically, the people around Morecock would be the English New Wave, but some Americans were also writing books that were conceptually exciting to people who weren't the traditional s.f. readers: Ellison, Lafferty, the Silverberg of "Born with the Dead."
Delany is core to that NYC lineage as was George Alec Effinger, who also hung out with the poets around St.Mark's Church, and Tom Disch (The New York School of Science Fiction, perhaps).
Tiptree was writing meta-science fiction, as behoved a New Yorker writer. She was inventing the writer as well as the work, so she is more like Borges than like most s.f. writers.
People who come out of more literary traditions who start writing s.f. often write very conventionally at first, or at least apparently conventionally, as a sort of asking permission and as a ironic exploration of the standard tropes.
Attempting to divide people into waves or schools strikes me as weird, though, something people who aren't writers are given to doing.
Check the *current* Red Cross site -- that FAQ question and reply isn't available now though the link Nancy Lebovitz passed on to me works.
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