With all due respect to the people involved

[james_davis_nicoll]

Can we defer the Jim Baen (and Baen Books) bashing until his status is resolved? And I don't mean in terms of finding out which hospital he is in.

Comments

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

??? What's been happening?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Jim Baen is in hospital following a stroke, as mentioned in an early entry on this LJ. Some of the discussion veered into the merits or lack thereof of Baen Books, which normally I am up for. At this particular point in time, I would prefer to avoid heated discussions on this subject until Baen gets out of hospital (Individual books, on the other hand, are still fair game).

It's like the Chalker thread on rasfw. I was going to review one of his collections when he died but I noticed that a fair chunk of the book touched on a reliable hot-button for rasfw [1] and held off, rather than let his widow get a flamewar as a memorial.

1: I don't recall whether the hot button was EDITORS: THREAT OR MENACE or THE EVIL THAT CRITICS DO LIVES AFTER THEM. Either one is a reliable way to start an angry argument.

I will note...

[seawasp]

.... That I would consider, FOR MYSELF, a 20,000 post flamewar to be an appropriate memorial. Especially if it produced any memorable and much-quoted sound bites.

:)

20,000 in Gehenna

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

EDITING: THREAT OR MENACE only ran 1274 articles, I am afraid.

Re: 20,000 in Gehenna

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Huh. Poking around on one critic related thread, I find that I once said:

" Bah. Double Bah. Every time I think Robinson has gotten as
shallow as he can get, he sucks another half inch out of the pool. "

which I think is a paraphrase of a snark a friend said about someone other than Robinson.

Re: 20,000 in Gehenna

[seawasp]

I can always hope for more.