Publishing is a business. It's designed to make money (you DO remember money, don't you?), just like, for example, the film industry. Why aren't you recommending that we all stop going to movies like Avatar and LOTR and Saving Private Ryan because they were made by middle-aged white guys? Simple - normal people…

Or..... I could just read whatever sounds good, completely ignoring race, gender, and sexual orientation. Which is why Elizabeth Bear, Howard Andrew Jones, and Saladin Ahmed (you probably don't know him, but his book sounds pretty cool) just sold books, and half a dozen others got added to an Amazon wish list. I have…

Remember when we strove to consume art that was considered by quality, and not by external identifications that have little-to-no bearing on artistic talent?