Paolo wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:59 pm As it's now December, and this thread is soon to join all the other Ghosts of Story Threads Past, I'll just leave this thought here.
Over the years, The Archive has seen a good number of terrific writers who have freely submitted hundreds of stories. Their only rewards, which they knew in advance of submitting them, would be reader feedback.
The question was just posed here: Why no new stories?
The answer is simple, as I said: No one is writing any.
Do we really need to ask why no one is writing any?
For more years than I care to think about, I checked the holding tank more than once a day and posted new material almost every day. Yes, those were the days.
I miss many of my favorite authors/old friends who don't send in stories any more.
Also, let's not dismiss Bella's Herculean efforts in restoring stories we thought lost. They may be old, but they're still part of the Archive.
And I agree that many thanks are due to past authors (including Paolo, IMHO one of the best..) and Bella for making the recoveries that keep them available. While new stories are welcome, seems to me like there are more than enough to keep most of us busy for a LONG time already...
I would think that SCO 8 would mean more stories not fewer.
I believe the link to the paper I mentioned is in the non-fiction article section of the forum, and best to look at it in the original...
However to paraphrase briefly:
Back when TG surgery wasn't readily available, there was lots of room to fantasize about how it might be done to a person, often without their overt consent, and by a variety of methods... So lots of transition stories (or so I'm told)... As the surgery became readily available, albeit after jumping through the right hoops, fantasy became less interesting as reality took it's place.
With the release of SOC 8, there is now an available path to get castrated legitimately, so reality is taking over. If you think about it, the SOC 8 path of medications, followed by going to the doctor for some not very dramatic surgery (less of a deal than reassignment surgery) doesn't make for much of a thrilling plot...
It is sort of the same pattern that hard science fiction has shown - as real science advanced, you stopped seeing new stories being written in the areas covered... i.e. 'trip to the moon' stories pretty much ended w/ the Apollo moon missions...
WheelyCurious
