Posted 4:59 PM by Gene

As I've said redundantly before, most news writing is the literary equivalent of self-abuse. Too often, for instance, do the hacks justify their idle favorites under the pretense of significance. So you like some "classic" "speculative-fiction" hack. So what? He's a reason our movies stink. And no, I do not take a dying magazine's list seriously, nor the Library of America opus; its output may slowly be turning into the bookstores' version of the Kennedy Center HHonors. (And that's the "best seller" among the holy Philip K. Dick's titles at #2,312 on Amazon.com, suggesting even the people may not be so gullible.) When the hacks do such typing it's little different from running a fan site, only this fan site has millions of hits per week.

I've had enough of these scribblers writing for themselves. When will one of them write for me?

P. S. I'd hoped for succor from Amazon.com's "classics" ranks but five of the top ones are Ayn Rand novels, and a sixth is a Cliff's Notes thereupon, meaning "speculative-fiction" buffs aren't the only ones full of it.