I would like someone to ask him why, in the Firefly universe, he would make the Browncoats the good guys and the Alliance the bad guys when in the real world he’s an Alliance guy himself, IE a big government Obama supporting leftist.
I’ve heard that Tim Minear had a lot to do with Firefly’s libertarian feel.
Srsly. How do you go from “That’s what governments are for, get in a man’s way” to ENDORSING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?
Like Jayne Cobb said, “It don’t make no sense.”
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is ‘idiot’.
– S.M. Stirling quoting Larry Niven
Yeah, but the characters a writer produces, book in, book out, certainly says *something* about that writer’s mind-set. And Sterling’s been writing charismatic, dominant, bisexual women, paganism, and end-of-civilization neo-colonial wish-fulfillment fantasy for long enough that there’s more than enough out there to psychoanalyze him. And I say that as someone who probably ought to have dropped his “Dies The Fire” series at least a trilogy ago…
Indeed, I saw the same thing all the way back in the Draka series, and more pronounced in the Nantucket series. That is not what I want to read. I’d rather have some John Ringo, Tom Kratman, Michael Z. Williamson, Larry Correia, or even David Weber, verbosity and all.
I quit Harry Turtledove for similar reasons.
So if an author writes a fictional story where a Hitler inspired character is the good guy we shouldn’t think that doing so reflects poorly on that writer? Seems to me that that would be rather idiotic. Not that I really care what Niven or Stirling think in the first place.
I would like someone to ask him why, in the Firefly universe, he would make the Browncoats the good guys and the Alliance the bad guys when in the real world he’s an Alliance guy himself, IE a big government Obama supporting leftist.
I’ve heard that Tim Minear had a lot to do with Firefly’s libertarian feel.
Srsly. How do you go from “That’s what governments are for, get in a man’s way” to ENDORSING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?
Like Jayne Cobb said, “It don’t make no sense.”
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is ‘idiot’.
– S.M. Stirling quoting Larry Niven
Yeah, but the characters a writer produces, book in, book out, certainly says *something* about that writer’s mind-set. And Sterling’s been writing charismatic, dominant, bisexual women, paganism, and end-of-civilization neo-colonial wish-fulfillment fantasy for long enough that there’s more than enough out there to psychoanalyze him. And I say that as someone who probably ought to have dropped his “Dies The Fire” series at least a trilogy ago…
Indeed, I saw the same thing all the way back in the Draka series, and more pronounced in the Nantucket series. That is not what I want to read. I’d rather have some John Ringo, Tom Kratman, Michael Z. Williamson, Larry Correia, or even David Weber, verbosity and all.
I quit Harry Turtledove for similar reasons.
So if an author writes a fictional story where a Hitler inspired character is the good guy we shouldn’t think that doing so reflects poorly on that writer? Seems to me that that would be rather idiotic. Not that I really care what Niven or Stirling think in the first place.