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If anything, we've grown far too isolated in our genres-within-genres, our multi-tracks, our insistence on our own favorite topics, excluding all others. It's time for people who love this stuff to get back to reading all across the field of science fiction and fantasy and appreciating all the branches for what they are: some for the young, some for the older reader, some for the engineers and some for the history buffs. So you don't care for something? Be patient. Isolation of the interest-groups and age-levels within the community is a vile trend, in my humble opinion, and multitracking panels at conventions has not helped the isolation: it's increased it. Too many critics and not enough general gosh-wow.If I can ask for anything in the sf community it's for readers deliberately to read things that stretch the limits of their preferences...stretch them until they feel them creak and shift and break wider. That's what books should do.