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Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past
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| 11/05/2019
| Craig DeLancey
Posted on 11/06/2019 6:22:24 AM PST by tbw2
Since 1991, the James Tiptree Junior Award has been given annually to a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender. The award was founded by two women science fiction writers, Pat Murphy and Karen Jay Fowler. From next year, it will be called the Otherwise Award.
Because social justice warriors decided to find it problematic.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: literature; sciencefiction; sjw; socialjustice
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To: treetopsandroofs
I might have time to read many of them one more time, and then what?
Donate them to your local High School. Its always good to that old school stuff into the hands of the next generation.
L
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posted on
11/06/2019 6:43:52 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: tbw2
I am an avid scifi reader. Even the cheap space operas available from Amazon. Pure escapism. Yet modern *awards* do not recognize writing excellence as there is little if any excellence to be found. There are no Isaac Asimovs or Frank Herberts to be found among us. Modern awards by any name mean nothing.
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posted on
11/06/2019 6:47:59 AM PST
by
buckalfa
(TheA best two years of my life were spent in the third grade.)
To: tbw2
Killing your husband as part of a suicide pact, whatever the reason, is still murder.
What women do is survive. We live by twos and threes in the chinks of your world machine
. Think of us as opossums
. Did you know there are opossums living all over? Even in New York City. When an alien spaceship lands nearby and the group encounters an extraterrestrial explorer, the fisherman panics, but Parsons and her daughter beg the aliens to take them away. They would rather leap into the unknown than return to their life in America.
When I read that description, I thought of those Dutch girls who thought it would be a good idea to "leap into the unknown" and join ISIS. The authoress never (to my knowledge) showed how things worked out with the extraterrestrials. Perhaps they were put in a zoo, or given male specimens to breed with, or were examined, killed and stuffed. But I guess they took the chance, rather than "return to America".
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posted on
11/06/2019 6:49:15 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Skooz
The End.
Unfortunately, an appendix has to be included to Klinefelter's (XXY), Trisomy X (XXX), XYY Syndrome, and Turner Syndrome (XO). That is point .2% of the population, but they do exist.
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posted on
11/06/2019 6:51:16 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: cgbg
I can’t imagine anything more destructive to artistic talent than imposing shallow, temporal politics and ideology upon it. It’s in every genre - the more ‘woke’ they become, the more their talent seems to dull. So many writers deal in the picyunish now, instead of big, sweeping ideas.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:04:35 AM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: Dr. Sivana; Skooz
Maybe those should be aborted, lest they mess up a simplistic formula?
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:05:45 AM PST
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: Lurker
Hmm, I actually spend a lot of time at my local high school, and in its library.
I don’t see a lot of respect for literature there, but if even just a few will, I suppose it’s worth it.
Thanks for the idea.
To: Jamestown1630
instead of big, sweeping ideas Big, sweeping ideas are symptoms of racism, fascism, and Nazism. We should only write about banning straws, not grasping at them in desperate circumstances.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:09:44 AM PST
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:13:05 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: treetopsandroofs
Thanks for the idea.
My pleasure. Ive dropped a bunch of seriously politically incorrect books there.
L
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:20:01 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:21:33 AM PST
by
BuffaloJack
("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
To: cgbg
You know that deep down they despise George Orwells knowing criticisms of Stalinists in the West
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:22:49 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: tbw2
Rename it the “Whatever” or “WGAF” award, imo.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:30:43 AM PST
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: BuffaloJack
The current Newspeak way of saying Politically Correct.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:32:47 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Problematic the favourite catchphrase of the American Cultural Revolution to describe anything that is not deemed as being woke. Problematic: politically incorrect, but explaining WHY it's politically incorrect would reveal too much of the game.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:41:14 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: tbw2
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:42:28 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
To: Reily
Baen Books, (publisher of politically-incorrect writers like John Ringo, Larry Correia, Tom Kratman and many others) is where I go for readable Science Fiction.
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:45:15 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
Baen Books...is where I go for readable Science Fiction.Me too. I have dozens of eBooks I've downloaded from their free library. I loved the "1633" series. There just isn't enough time to get to them all.
C'mon....retirement!
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posted on
11/06/2019 7:55:46 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
To: null and void
...banning straws, not grasping at them in desperate circumstances
Good expression of how dumbed-down we are becoming.
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posted on
11/06/2019 8:08:03 AM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: Jamestown1630
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posted on
11/06/2019 8:10:45 AM PST
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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