New Human Wave and Where do I Sign Up?
With the introduction into the literary world of the New Human Wave Movement, proclaimed by Sarah A. Hoyt, the New Space Princess Movement (which, due to staggering growth since 2008, still consists of myself and Canadian SF writer Edward Willet) is in danger of being eclipsed.
What is New Human Wave? Patrick Richardson of PJ Media describes it this way:
… we’re sick of grey goo SF. Books where unlikeable characters with no redeeming value wander about doing nothing for 300 pages in a grey landscape without hope or joy.
We are tired of the “message books,” foisted on us by the pretentious literati gits who currently control almost all of the major publishing houses.
We want to return to the sense of wonder and awe we felt when we picked up our first SF novel as children.
Sarah A Hoyt, tellingly enough, list what the New Human Wave permits and allows, and scoffs at the idea of the Wave forbidding anything except, perhaps, a gray tale and dull. The Human Wave permits heroics, wonder, action, and stories that have a point, and even (gasp) tale that have a plot, complete with happy ending. In her words:
Your writing shouldn’t leave anyone feeling like they should scrub with pumice or commit suicide through swallowing stoats for the crime of being human, or like humans are a blight upon the Earth, or that the future is dark, dreary, evil and fraught with nastiness, because that’s all humans can do, and woe is us.
If I did not have my own personal literary movement going, I’d join it if they’d have me.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
