It’s not the Puppies, it’s the monoculture.
Though I think another big problem is that it has one too many “F”s.
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It’s not the Puppies, it’s the monoculture.
Though I think another big problem is that it has one too many “F”s.
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The same thing has been driving the GamerGate controversy in gaming. A bunch of SJW types are trying to inflict new rules on game developers and reshape the medium into their desires. As well as being openly contemptuous of their customers. Of course that hasn’t worked out well as the corruption of the gaming media was exposed and the gaming media simultaneously gave their customers the middle finger
Rule number 3, double down. Currently on display with the racist accusations against Sarah for using the word Chicom.
This is really precious, from yet another 3-name un-self-aware hack named Adam-Troy Castro:
You want to win a Hugo, win it the way you’re supposed to: by blowing away the readership with such brilliance that people can’t abide the idea of NOT giving you a Hugo.
Yeah, like THATS been on display for the last two decades. What an intellectual house plant.
The thing is, most readers aren’t that concerned whether their fav author has one of those chrome plated dildos or not. If the work is good, what a bunch of con-going, self absorbed morons think of the work is beside the point. People like David Weber, John Ringo, and Sarah Hoyt will do just fine without such things.
People like David Weber, John Ringo, and Sarah Hoyt will do just fine without such things.
Sure they will. It’s us lowly readers who suffer. Used to be we could not only read our regulars, but pick up the latest Hugo winner and maybe find a new regular. Then it used to be maybe we could pick up one of the latest nominated’s. Now… not so much. To use Sarah’s vernacular, now they are more likely to experience a sudden unexpected flying lesson. And for the poor sucker reader a “that’s X hours I’ll never get back” combined with a “where’s my brain drano”.
I have bought a few old anthologies of Hugo winning stories. Most are by authors I have not read but I was confident the stories would be outstanding. These days, I would not make that bet.
Agreed with the F.
Let’s get fantasy out of Science Fiction.
Let’s get fantasy out of Science Fiction.
I concur, without casting any denigration over fantasy. And, as Heinlein and Anderson and many others have shown, there’s always going to be a gray area between them. (Any sufficiently advanced technology…)
But they are mostly different genres.