[A S/F magazine is mocking Vox's position on female science fiction writers]

As it happens, the publishing situation is actually much more dire and the destruction caused by women is considerably more widespread than many people imagine.

Consider this: as of 10 November, I have sold or given away 26,092 Selenoth books on Amazon alone in the last 11 months. Those are books that women at not one, but two, mainstream publishers were instrumental in declining to publish, and as a result, those books have not appeared in a single bookstore anywhere in the world.

Now, think about the multiplier effect of a major publisher's distribution channel compared to that of a small independent, electronic-only publisher? Even if it is only 5x, that likely would have been enough to put A Throne of Bones in the top 5 percent of best-selling fantasy. (This may be why the bestselling author who wrote to me said: "I very much found myself wondering what would have happened had it been published by a large house with a marketing campaign behind it.") And all the time spent reading those 26 thousand books, which was not inconsiderable, is time that was obviously not spent reading the various offerings of the mainstream publishers.

More importantly, the money that would have been spent on the nonexistent "multiplier books" was mostly not spent on other science fiction and fantasy novels, but was instead spent on the wide variety of other non-literary options available to the sort of men who make up the books' primary market. And I am far from the only male-oriented writer who was shut out by the SF/F gatekeepers in favor of the scalzified material. This means that there a very good case to be made that women have not only destroyed science fiction, but have also contributed significantly to the lower profits of the publishing industry as well as the ongoing collapse of the chain and local bookstores.