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I looked at all the YA SF nominees in the Locus Awards... (locusmag.com)
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...I went to the Kindle pages and read the opening chapters, just to see. And ALL TEN of them are written in first person POV. This boggles me. A couple decades ago when I was reading a lot of "how to write SF" advice, the most consistent message was "1P is a trap for noobs, don't use it!" Now it is apparently required to get a YA novel nominated. Amazing.

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[–] witten 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, this is YA, right? It's not just a recent trend that YA is often first person. Adult SF on the other hand...