Comment by alexitorg
14 days ago
Here are a few ideas trends that are affecting this: -Publishing is getting less profitable so there are less books being published by the big companies. -Publishing companies are grow 70-80% woman and are choosing female preferred books -Most published fiction readers are female (I'm not sure what came first women reading more books or publishes publishing less male friendly books) -Romance is the biggest genre fiction and that has heaps of dragons, werewolves and vampires (hence why those terms haven't dropped off) -Self published books aren't included in isfdb, lots of male authors self publish -Amazon best selling sci/fi, cyberpunk lists now have heaps of self-published books (maybe most) -Most of this stuff is pretty pulpy, but it is really common to have starships and space travel in these books.
ISFDB has tens of thousands of self-published books listed. Since it's a volunteer project, and since specific self-published books are not necessarily easy to find if you don't know the title or the author name, they only get added when an editor there runs across them somewhere. And if something isn't listed there, you can always create an account and add publications yourself.