More of the same

What do you read when you realize that even though you *should* like a genre, you pretty much completely hate most of the crap that's written?

Like, I *SHOULD* love both scifi and cyberpunk, and in truth, the concepts still give me inspirations. The written works, however.... I can only imagine as what it would feel like to have a plastic spoon shoved up my ass to clean out my colon. In fact, that procedure might be preferable.

I don't like the writing. I think the premises are boring and don't even interest me. The characters.... WHAT characters?! The cream of the crop is the fact that the endings are JUST as tasteless as american processed cheese product, government grade. I don't even remember them.

I don't even remember the settings, let alone any of the particulars... they all run together into the same never-ending stream of 'scifi' that I can't identify. It's just 'scifi slush' to me - even when I'm desperately attempting to read something new. One, big, soupy, greenish-brown-colored jumbo slush.

So what do you do when you have no interest in your favorite genres? (The scary thing is, I actually have LESS than no interest in most other genres, or even, in most of what I see published.)

I want to be excited about books again! I want a publisher that will pick up some new no-name authors of good books and tell me about them - and be honest. I don't want to read chicklit-in-space, masked as scifi. I don't want to read fantasy in space - with modern dark-age tools and practices, and I don't want to read pulp-comic-books-in-space either. Give me something INSPIRING.

Give me something NEW. Give me something to TREASURE and CHERISH and purchase in LIMITED EDITION SUPER GOLD-FOILED HARD COVER WITH SLIPCASE.... Give me something that makes me WONDER.

GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT IS NOT MORE OF THE SAME!