Posted on 06/24/2021 2:56:47 PM PDT by tbw2
Over the past several years, I’ve watched WorldCon repeatedly implode.
Well, not exactly. It imploded in 2018 in a very spectacular way. WorldCon 2019 didn’t exactly implode, but then again, Jeanette Ng’s “acceptance” speech of the John W. Campbell award (now renamed “Astounding”) was her long awaited stab at a long-dead science fiction icon which spawned more of her displeasure at the “stale, pale, male crowd,” as well as a long list of other award renamings. The irony is that Ng also won a “Best Related Work” Hugo for 2020 because she complained about Campbell the year before. A rant wins you a Hugo. Who’d have thought.
As if things couldn’t get any worse, famed writer George R.R. Martin was accused of racism at the totally tanked WorldCon 2020. On top of that, the World Fantasy Con in the same year wrought its own disasters. If you read those blog posts, you’ll see the collection of “usual suspects” who complain about everything and anything that’s even a hair out of place compared to their high and mighty expectations.
Now we come to this, which I found online at Locus Magazine, a small article called Hugo Administration Team Resigns.
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“They called the conservative author racist from official accounts, banned him from the event after he was harassed and strange packages sent to him home, and continued to exaggerate rumors against him to justify banning and publicly defaming him.”
That’s the way leftwad scum act.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3920426/posts
Amen!
Thanks!
Libertarianism makes the best sci-fi. Real world has lots of difficulties for libertarianism, but it’s the thing to “shoot for”.
#6 You outta have read the Star Trek novels from over 20 years ago. I would buy one and ended up skimming thru many pages to find something about Star Trek. I eventually threw out the novels I had saved, just no good.
I have many science fiction books from the old masters but nothing from the last few decades. Kinda how movies and tv shows and music and sports have all degraded.
I didn’t know that the Sad Puppies are still doing their thing.
Who was behind The Philadelphia Experiment.....
L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1944
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/atpool/authors_l_sprague_de_camp_isaac_asimov_and_robert/
Wiki on it. Just happened to have 3 great science fiction writers there....hmmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
You might like this.
An Interview with Author Chris Nuttall
https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/02/16/an-interview-with-author-chris-nuttall/
For a very non-PC book, “Lucifer’s Hammer”
Good interview. I’ve read all of his hard stuff stuff (don’t care for fantasy). Try his Outside Context trilogy...one of my favorites.
"Have we ruled out stupidity?" -- Lucy Van Pelt
Baen Books carries a number of conservative SF writers. Check out John Ringo, Larry Correia, and others there.
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