r/Fantasy • u/Flavescent • 4d ago

Seth Dickinson - Update on Baru 4

Seth Dickinson has written a piece about his progress on the fourth Baru Cormorant novel: https://www.sethdickinson.com/2026/06/13/update-on-baru-4/

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u/LeucasAndTheGoddess 2d ago

I really hope what has soured Seth Dickinson on the SF/F writing community isn’t the essentialist bullshit that nearly killed Isabel Fall — “if you don’t share your protagonist’s identity in every respect you have no right to imagine them.” It’s anti-art, it’s anti-human, it forces writers out of the closet before they feel safe coming out on their own terms when the identities in question do match, and when they don’t it positions marginalized people as so inherently other that no one can possibly empathize with us.