And I *never* use 'didactic" as a put down (I *like* didactic). What I think I said is that sometimes it wasn't handled as smoothly as I'd have liked.
My one comment here is that so much of the political sf in the YA range is political in a way I find unnerving (and I praise the Westerfeld in the book, not my cup of tea, but that's quite different from what I'm complaining about. My comment on Uglies etc is that it succeeds as sf precisely to the degree it loses its grip on "YA issues".
Also: the book makes very clear that I think the situation began to improve dramatically after 2000. The article is a victim of length requirements.
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And I *never* use 'didactic" as a put down (I *like* didactic). What I think I said is that sometimes it wasn't handled as smoothly as I'd have liked.
My one comment here is that so much of the political sf in the YA range is political in a way I find unnerving (and I praise the Westerfeld in the book, not my cup of tea, but that's quite different from what I'm complaining about. My comment on Uglies etc is that it succeeds as sf precisely to the degree it loses its grip on "YA issues".
Also: the book makes very clear that I think the situation began to improve dramatically after 2000. The article is a victim of length requirements.