Overall Vision

So why write in a genre this narrow? Surely I would be deluded if I told you I sought commercial success. Mainstream sci fi writers are already doing poorly enough, most of them.
Consider the case of the American cowboys of the late 1800's. Surely you would be hard pressed to find people less worthy of heroic status in culture. Between infrequent baths and clothes washing, drinking, visiting hookers and an overindulgence in gunplay, they were hardly choirboys. And yet, between novels, TV shows and movies, what is their image now?
Ok, I don't mean Afghan women and girls would ever achieve that level of culture hero success. I just use it as an example, to illustrate the concept.

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