Tweet of the Day, I Didn’t Really Want To Get Into The Entire Hugos Thing edition.

I am a little biased on the subject, you see. I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a reason why what looked like it might have been a reasonably good RPG writing career suddenly dried up at about the same time it became clear that I was one of those Republicans. I can’t actually prove anything, can’t even justify my speculations, but there it is. And so, objective I may not be on the topic of the possible politicization of geekery.

But really, Entertainment Weekly? Really?

And background here:

Moe Lane

PS: EW has since desperately backtracked on this, but still.

16 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, I Didn’t Really Want To Get Into The Entire Hugos Thing edition.”

  1. I think what Sad Puppies did was brilliant. Flipped things on them. Because I have no personal, vested interest in the Hugos or the writing community, I can sit here and just laugh and enjoy.

  2. I quit paying attention to the Hugo Awards over twenty years ago. I used to read the winners religiously. I didn’t know why I quit, but I did notice that my favorate authors, Ringo, Weber, Butcher, et. al never won. Until a short time ago, I did not know why. I am thrilled with the hoisting on their own petard of all of the CHORF’s. Interesting that Sarah Hoyt is a misogynist to these libtards. Hoisting Libtards with their own Petards. You gotta love that.

    2. I’d largely stopped reading SF/F until a few years ago.
      I was tired of buying crap.
      .
      Then I discovered Correia and Indy in rapid succession.
      Turns out a lot of authors I liked were still writing, they just weren’t being published by publishing companies, or stocked at Barnes & Noble. Not only that, but there was a new crop of excellent authors who had largely been condemned to obscurity. Once I plugged into that counter culture, I’ve found more good books than I’ve had time to read.

  3. I still have the old ‘Traveller’ book “The Kinunir” some where. I think it won a Hugo despite having no safe places. What really happened to that ship, out in the Spinward Marches?

    🙂

    1. Oh Heck! What happened to “Kinunir” is what happened aboard ‘Discovery’ in ‘2001’. The AI computer killed the crew. If you can get to the computer and disable it, you can escape (and probably get the Imperium to forgive a lot of things – like entering a ‘red zone’ and boarding an Imperial warship, and putting an explosive charge into the ship’s computer….)

    1. I’m thinking – (Lord help us all; he’s thinking!) – the entire Traveller background would be a very good one for a Sci-Fi series. Stories on the fringes of Empire worked out very well for Rudyard Kipling after all.

      Sort of like ‘Firefly’.

      1. There was a Kickstarter last year to make a Traveller pilot. It’s supposed to premiere at GenCon this year.

  5. It appears they have nearly completely rewritten the piece, and moved it to a new URL that doesn’t have the words “misogynistic” and “racist” in it.
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    That didn’t take long. But they still want to focus on Vox Day and the “literary” versus “popular”complaint (a sure tell the writer got this take from the recent io9 piece). That argument doesn’t hold water when a recent Hugo best novel winner was little more than Star Trek fanfic. Don’t confuse “literary” with hobbyhorse-rocking, EW. That’s what the focus of the SP complaint is.

    1. Literary is kinda right, and kinda wrong.
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      The literary taste comes from overexposure to regular stories, and becoming so jaded that something without a plot or anything happening looks interesting because people do that more rarely. See quite a lot of English professors.
      .
      Sad Puppies is speaking from the reads tons perspective, but the contrast is different. The other side seems to have read so few books that they say ‘that is so original that it is awesome’, instead of ‘Jack Chalker did that, and his execution was at least competent’, or worse, care more about the author’s biography than the story.

  6. I read the original and the current version. It’s obvious that the author was forced to rewrite her article in about 5 minutes (that said, I’m not sure the original took much longer). The new article is horribly written, jumps from thought to thought, and according to the comments still contains gross errors.

    I’m glad people are fighting back against this nonsense. We need to keep pushing until people start paying for this type of attack with loss of credibility, job and career. Not just the authors, but the editors who sign off on their work for publication (or don’t read the articles ahead of publication).

  7. Moe,

    I was more than a little suspicions of head-hitting brick wall with the publishing industry had to do with my politics as well. I never could check all the boxes they wanted checked for the sake of tokenism. My stories were…gasp…told to entertain.

    And yes, I’ve watched Butcher, The International Lord of Hate, Ringo, and others grow dragon hordes of treasure from their writing, and yet get no recognition. They’re not ‘real’ authors.

    It’s a sad, bizarre, insular world the SJWs live in. I would let them have it, if they didn’t insist on wrecking the real one.

  8. The basic issue is that English language fiction largely goes through NYC, and is easily run by a bunch of incestuous cliques. It isn’t clear to me that the same situation happens in game publishing.
    .
    Steve Jackson games is in Austin, for example.
    .
    But maybe RPGs pulled a lot of their staff from fiction. I dunno.
    .
    I’ve been following things closely for some time.

    1. Do keep in mind that Austin is the Berkeley of Texas. TSR used to be fairly broad tent. But since they went down the drain, I’ve had the feeling it’s largely mimicking the Entertainment Industry at large.

      Unless you go into the Indie gaming sphere. Which I think has proliferated for the same reason the Indie book market has.

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