Oh god, so much this. So much beautiful work, finally beginning to represent a decent range of communities, and most of it gets a brief flare of attention with online publication, and earns the writer less than the minimum wage. If they’re lucky.
It’s a goddamn shame that short speculative fiction is at its creative peak now, when its markets are in economic shambles.
I wish 1920s-80s levels of SFF money were available now to finance beautiful and gay and provocative genre fic, instead of during the libertarian-punches-his-way-to-Mars era.
