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.
spaceoperareadr|21 days ago