I'd personally like to see more gender non-conforming roles in societies.

In a society with magic or space tech, why does there need to be a coded gender for certain jobs?

This goes for 'character classes' too. I'd love to see more healer archetypes that are cis male, or wizard types that are black or brown without relying on stereotypes.

I'd also like to see more of that in occupations too. Why not have a union of earth magic construction workers who happen to be mostly women in one city?

What about the rest of you? What cool things would you live to see in sci-fi/fantasy?

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I can't explain it in a way that can make sense. Cosmic not horror.

    I can only think of a few authors that even bother with it. The conflict is mostly finding ways to get by knowing about the scale of the universe and our relative place in it. Or figuring out how to ignore capitlaism so that we get a chance to see some of it.

    Gregg egan's stuff, ruthanna emerys, the culture, william hope Hodgson.

    That last one is especially intresting because he inspired lovecraft only he thought it was cool the universe was full of scary stuff to explore. So that is a trip.