Posted on 01/23/2016 1:02:29 PM PST by Perdogg
Influential science fiction author and editor David G. Hartwell has died, aged 74.
Hartwell edited thousands of books and was nominated for the Hugo Award 41 times. He spent the last 30-plus years as an editor for Tor Books, whose founder Tom Doherty wrote “no editor was more influential in the shaping of science fiction and fantasy than he.â€
SciFi co-editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden called Hartwell “our field’s most consequential editor since John W. Campbell.†Given Campbell's status as the driving force behind science fiction's Golden Age, that's high praise indeed.
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Tor also put out some exceptional horror especially back in the 80s/90s. Sad to see what liberals did to their Sci/Fi and Horror.
Is there any cool Conservative sci-fi out their?
Despite his leftward leanings, David Hartwell struck me as being one of the last remaining sane individuals in the editorial offices [At Tor Books], and he was perhaps the only one capable of reigning in the lunatic impulses of Patrick Nielsen Hayden and the Torstapo. By his own account, he even managed to talk the notorious award-whore into standing down and letting long-time bridesmaid Lou Anders of Pyr finally win PNH's Best Tor Editor Award (also known as Best Editor (Long Form) Hugo) in 2011.
I expect he will be missed by many, and that things in the science fiction world are going to get even more, shall we say, interesting, in his absence.
Unfortunately, ψφ has become an SJW cesspool, Hartwell did help to create some of that atmosphere, his demurrals to the contrary not withstanding. To the extent that he tried to do well, and that he was by all accounts a fine editor and critic, we should be magnanimous. RIP.
No idea. I stopped buying books a while ago. Couldn’t deal with the SJW bs they were injecting in.
If you are into Robots/space opera, the old Bettletech series has a lot of conservative themes throughout it and has a few dozen books. None of them worse than ‘better than average’. And it isn’t merely robot war. there’s lots of human interest with well developed and engaging characters, and a metric ton of politics.
Larry Corriea, author of “Monster Hunters International”; John Ringo, prolific author.
“Larry Corriea, author of “Monster Hunters International”; John Ringo, prolific author.”
I just ordered the compendium of the first three books. Any series that starts with the hero tossing his boss out of a fourteenth story window can’t be bad.
I’ve read some of John Ringo’s Posleen War series, it’s pretty good. Gotta love yellow reptilian centaurs. Even if they don’t love you.
Second (third?) the Monster Hunters series. Haven’t gotten to the rest of Corriea’s stuff but the MH stuff is a lot of fun.
“...was nominated for the Hugo Award 41 times...”
What do you have to do to get a Hugo Award? Breathe?
Check out the titles from Baen publishing. Their lines generally run pretty conservative/libertarian.
David Drake, plus the others in your replies
Tom Kratman, also at Baen.
You might also check out older works by Heinlein, Pournelle, Larry Niven.
Sarah Hoyt, who seems to be conservative/libertarian, guest posts at Instapundit. Her books are published by Baen.
To echo the others...
John Ringo, (read The Last Centurion as a primer)
David Drake
Larry Correia
Tom Krautman(Caliphate is free for Kindle users)
David Weber
There are others and since SJWs won’t vote for them, they don’t have Hugos. The more Hugos an author has(at least in the last 20 or so years) the more SJW bonifides they have.
The fairy queen / trailer trash in the first book was hilarious, too.
I thought it was interesting that Elizabeth Moon was kicked out of several events for criticizing Muslims wanting a 9-11 mosque but we can’t have churches in Saudi Arabia. And this despite the fact she was a female military war veteran with a disabled son (lots of demographic check boxes for SJW) best selling sci-fi author.
But multiculturalism trumped feminism even in 2003.
Simply phenomenal.
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