← Back to context Comment by amptorn 2 years ago Is fiction not allowed on HN? 3 comments amptorn Reply dang 2 years ago It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here. dredmorbius 2 years ago I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally. op00to 2 years ago Only hard sci-fi.
dang 2 years ago It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here. dredmorbius 2 years ago I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.
dredmorbius 2 years ago I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.
It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here.
I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:
<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)
I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.
Only hard sci-fi.