I choose not to celebrate SFWA for deciding partial use of stolen creative work is OK.

I choose not to celebrate the devaluation of the Nebula Awards.

I ask why SFWA hasn't banned any partially or wholly LLM-"created" work from both awards consideration and membership qualification.

I dunno, maybe if your first reaction to being cut off by your children is to run to social media to complain about it...

...maybe they're not the problem?

Seems like they've gotten more narrow about queer* content, at least. I've read a few far-future books from Baen recently, and things were about on a '90s-cishet-American level of awareness of orientation diversity. Which probably isn't drawing much of the "youth vote."

*Relatively broadly defined.

The graphic novel Heathen Volume 1 by Natasha Alterici (author/illustrator) and Ashley A. Woods (illustrator) - Superior sword & sorcery adventure centered on a Viking's warrior daughter, who is exiled for kissing another girl; patriarchy-smashing ensues.

Haven't yet read the follow-ups.

I have this. Great book! Lots of fun.

Early Hercule is PD in the US, FWIW. This doesn't help you if you're eyeing the UK market.

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.

They have asked folks to reach out to them at [email protected] to coordinate support.

The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm