LiveJournal has brought forth The "Life Is Too Grim Already" League, to promote the writing and reading of speculative fiction which does not cause one to slit one's wrists.

I am entirely in sympathy with their aims, and I hope they're successful. There's a lot of dreariness in SF these days -- I mumbled about that on my personal blog the other week, which may have been one of the things that sparked this League -- and I hope it can be at least kept from spreading. 

The LITGA League joins the New Comprehensible and the New Space Princess Movement as the SF world's brand-new manifestos, and, if they actually lead to anything, this may be a very good year.