Young Adult Fiction: More Heinlein, Less Twilight, Please?

So, I'm just feeling cranky but I'm afraid this could turn into the kind of rant where people point and laugh and say "UR totally old dude and WTF are you talking about?" because I haven't done an in-depth study of today's YA genre, I just know what kind of books I'm seeing reviewed all the damn time and what aspiring YA writers say on writers' forums.

So, with as much self-awareness and appreciation for irony and my own hypocrisy as I can muster, let me just say: most YA fiction sucks.

( In which Inverarity waves a cranky fist at those damn young adults on his lawn )

Young Adult Fiction: More Heinlein, Less Twilight, Please?

So, I'm just feeling cranky but I'm afraid this could turn into the kind of rant where people point and laugh and say "UR totally old dude and WTF are you talking about?" because I haven't done an in-depth study of today's YA genre, I just know what kind of books I'm seeing reviewed all the damn time and what aspiring YA writers say on writers' forums.

So, with as much self-awareness and appreciation for irony and my own hypocrisy as I can muster, let me just say: most YA fiction sucks.

( In which Inverarity waves a cranky fist at those damn young adults on his lawn )