The link above came to me via Kieron Gillen’s newsletter, and it’s timing is interesting given the recent online fracas about ‘Squeecore’, which touches upon a similar aesthetic as Sandifer’s idea of ‘Tor-Wave’ as a nascent movement/moment in SF.
I don’t think the Squeecore folks have really nailed it—they’re far more interested in throwing stones at things they don’t like than actually grappling with what’s going on—but it’s pretty obvious there is some stylistic and contextual shifts going in spec fic at the moment (And I have no complaints about that, given that it largely results in a far higher percentage of books I want to read compared to some of the previous eras).
