Last night, my colleagues David Stewart and Brian Niemeier held a podcast talking about the mecha genre and NewPub. You can find it archived below.
Brian has his post about it here.
If you watch, be certain to have the Chat window open; as much talk went on there as did between David and Brian. If you've been paying attention, you'll find that certain cultural trends Brian, myself, and a few others like Jeffro Johnson have noticed and commented upon may have applicability here to varying degrees- mostly on the Western side of the matter.
In short, the Dead Egg Division of frustrated Bitch Lit authors turned their pity positions in OldPub into power positions by 1980. During this time the malaise of misery porn in the West that polluted popular science fiction got stymied only due to Star Trek and Star Wars, with some off-brand examples getting some traction because of this (e.g. The Black Hole, released to theaters in 1979). "Respectable" opinion shat on them and the tradition of the Pulps they--Star Wars in particular--they represented.
It's not a surprise that, outside of the BattleTech brand, you don't see major Western mecha SF anymore. A lot of those who would go that route got shut out by the Bitch Lit Brigade running OldPub, so they're in the NewPub field now and they're doing fine. Below is a partial list linking to Amazon Author Pages.
This is in addition to myself, Brian, and Rawle. Add your own below in the Comments.
Brian will be on Geek Gab again this weekend. See you all in the chat.
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