#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
Like a swan swimming across a pond, what looks like serenity from the outside often masks a tremendous amount of activity going on beneath the surface. Over the last few weeks I’ve had several conversations with executives at Tor Books, Macmillan, and Macmillan UK, and I can assure you that there is a very good […]
Given the false defense presently being offered by Tor’s senior executives, which is that they are not being contacted by large numbers of unhappy science fiction readers but are instead being spammed by a bot-net at my disposal, their response to a prospective boycott is entirely predictable. If Macmillan does not act on the basis […]
Not when the very worst writer in science fiction and fantasy opposes us: Mercedes Lackey says: May 15, 2015 at 9:00 PM I’ve said it before in your blog and I’ll say it again. The Puppies of both orders picked the perfect name for themselves. Puppies piss and shit all over everything, they never stop […]
Case in point: Mary Robinette Kowal: Mary Robinette Kowal says: April 13, 2015 at 6:25 pm Speaking as someone who has been the repeated target of Vox Day, this strategy does not work. Until April 11, 2015, I have NEVER mentioned him on my blog. EVER. I have him blocked on all social media. “He […]
One thing I thought particularly worthy of note is what a small proportion of #GamerGate tweets are in response to the Hugo Awards. And notice that they didn’t move up until several days after the initial #SadPuppies spike. That’s what I find so amusing about the SJW panic about those they call “thugs” in their […]
Ptbarnium points out that the SJWs in science fiction are demonstrating one of the reasons Sad Puppies 3 is so badly needed: Every single second of the controversy so far has taken place before the ballot has been announced. It might sound plain but it seems that they have all missed it. Everytime TNH wrings […]
I always knew that John Scalzi was primarily responsible for the SFWA “expulsion”*, but I didn’t realize that I had proof of it sitting right in front of me the entire time. Consider this statement from page 23 of “Evidence regarding the complaints made against Theodore Beale, Report to the Board of Directors of SFWA”, […]
This was the reaction of last year’s Best Novel winner to the fact that someone he totally ignores and doesn’t care about at all didn’t happen to win a Hugo Award for a novelette. John Scalzi @scalzi I’m not going to lie. I’m going to be THRILLED to snarkread the whiny “I didn’t want it […]
“The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal. A Lady Astronaut (-5 demerits for sexism) has to choose between her dream of space and her husband. One guess which one she chooses. Not merely the worst of the five, but easily the worst of them. Don’t believe me? Just read it. “The Truth of […]
SFWA’s sordid history of harboring child molesters is not, as some of its defenders would have you believe, nothing but a relic of freaky 1960s SF fandom. From the 2010 SFWA Directory: Kowal, Mary Robinette (A) Secretary of SFWA [Address 1] [Address 2] [Telephone] secretary@secretary.org [personal email] www.maryrobinettekowal.com Twitter: maryrobinette [SFWA Agent Code] Kramer, Edward […]