Gene Ward Smith wrote:
pete wrote:


I agree wholeheartedly. The increasing difficulty in finding science
fiction that actually contained any science is why I pretty much
gave up reading SF around 1972.


Increasing? Have you read much golden age science fiction?

Probably he has... and has the lovely "WHEN I WAS YOUNG" meme going.



The generation of hard SF writers who worked
in the 1930s to 60s had a better work ethic.


Eh? What the heck are you talking about?


Probably the change in *flavor* for SF. It really doesn't have much
to do with whether the science content is greater, but on whether it
FELT like science fiction.