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Sci-fi as a literary genre is so great because it's like Broadway; if you're being snobbish about it you're missing the point entirely. It comes from the tradition of mass market serials that have always been considered low-brow. Half the authors you mention began their careers writing throwaway pulp for ten cent magazines. It's a folk art form through and through.

So we should expect our next diamonds to come from areas like r/hfy, royalroad, archive of our own. Lot of young writers there but there's always some gems.

And the daily / weekly release cycles most use is really reminiscent of old-school serialized publications.

That folk art part of things also gets a little extra literal when you consider the long history of typically folk-style filk songs based on scifi and fantasy works.

This. Gutenberg has Astounding Stories as the prime example:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/198

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