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Is fiction not allowed on HN?

by amptorn 3y ago

op00to 3y ago
Only hard sci-fi.
dang 3y ago
It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here.
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=The%20Ones%20who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Far more success in comments: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=The%20Ones%20who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (I thought I might have first encountered it here, though it might have appeared elsewhere.) Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream" has had some success: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22I%20have%20no%20mouth%20and%20I%20must%20scream%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Marshall Brain's "Manna: Two Views of Humanity's Future" (2003) was what I'd had in mind when finding the Ellison story, but it's also had little success: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Manna%3A%20Two%20views%20of%20Humanity%27s%20future%2C%20Marshall%20Brain&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Cory Doctorow's Little Brother by comparison did well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390441>. Though still hardly spectacularly. E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" has seen both multiple submissions and comparatively decent discussion: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.) I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.

Is fiction not allowed on HN?

op00to 3y ago

Only hard sci-fi.

dang 3y ago

It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here.

dredmorbius 3y ago
I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=The%20Ones%20who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Far more success in comments: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=The%20Ones%20who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (I thought I might have first encountered it here, though it might have appeared elsewhere.) Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream" has had some success: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22I%20have%20no%20mouth%20and%20I%20must%20scream%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Marshall Brain's "Manna: Two Views of Humanity's Future" (2003) was what I'd had in mind when finding the Ellison story, but it's also had little success: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Manna%3A%20Two%20views%20of%20Humanity%27s%20future%2C%20Marshall%20Brain&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Cory Doctorow's Little Brother by comparison did well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390441>. Though still hardly spectacularly. E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" has seen both multiple submissions and comparatively decent discussion: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.) I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.