Corroboration sought

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Via Mike Ralls]

Steve Barnes has reported hearing that Jim Baen has been hospitalized with a stroke.

[Added later: this has been confirmed]

[If memory serves, Dar Kush was where I saw the announcement of Octavia Butler's death]

I will note at this point that not all strokes are created the same and that many people have continued their careers after having one.

Comments

Re: Why...

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Ryk, Baen publishes a lot of books that are poisoned with a fairly evil worldview, and markets them deliberately to people who are looking for didactic ideological fiction -- books with a worldview the reader can borrow to make themselves feel superior to what they really are.

That they publish science fiction is almost besides the point, save that SF fans are notoriously gullible.

Re: Why...

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

My late DH was a Baen author and his politics were moderate/progressive. I think you're oversimplifying.

Re: Why...

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I use words precisely. Please re-read what I wrote.

Re: Why...

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're right. But it's customary to wait till after the funeral to dance on someone's grave... that you're not that well socialised leads me to question your opinion on what is a poisonous worldview.

A little respect for human life, a little politeness in a time of emotional crisis for others, a teeny pause in ones own merciless agenda to contemplate mortality and the frailty of our flesh... My worldview looks on all these things as a better choice of response to this news than your pre-emptive triumphalism.

Re: Why...

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

... you know, I've found fandom to be the most poorly socialized subculture I've ever encountered. I'll not mourn its passing.

As for Jim Baen the man? I'm sorry his flesh is frail, and I hope that he recovers, as I do all sick people.

Re: Why...

[seawasp]

*shrug* A lot of publishers do that -- of course, "evil worldview" varies widely from viewer to viewer. If every publisher who published a lot of books that were "poisoned with a fairly evil worldview" were destroyed, there'd be no publishers. Anywhere. Except maybe publishers of Dr. Seuss books, and I'm sure someone would be along to burn them soon enough.

As one of Baen's authors who's read stuff by a number of Baen's writers, I'd say that he's actually got a pretty damn broad spread of worldviews in the overall stable. His most POPULAR authors may tend to cluster in certain areas -- although anyone who tries to say that, for instance, John Ringo, Eric Flint, and David Weber are showing the same worldview would probably be doomed to fail if asked to demonstrate it -- but I doubt that the overall distribution of material is more slanted than that of any other publisher.

(note that I'm not even attempting to divine, or discuss, what "evil worldview" you may happen to be thinking of.)

Re: Why...

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

(note that I'm not even attempting to divine, or discuss, what "evil worldview" you may happen to be thinking of.)

Of course you're not, and I wouldn't expect you to.