Linking is not advocacy

[james_davis_nicoll]

Theodore "Vox Day" Beale goes on a rant about the Nebula Awards, giving as his examples of injustice times when women beat men. You may remember Vox as the guy whose clarity of vision didn't extend as far as satire.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

There does seem to be a long stretch there where the outcome of the Nebula voting was fairly consistently counter-intuitive: for example, Moving Mars beat Parable of the Sower, Gun, with Occasional Music, Towing Jehovah, Temporary Agency, Green Mars, and A Night in the Lonesome October. I don't dislike Moving Mars but I don't rate it as high as the Butler, the Lethem or the Morrow (I have not read the Pollack or the Zelazny).

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And then there's the Space Whale Rape story by a man who may be among the least talented authors to emerge this generation.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I tried to read that story once, after seeing so many people make fun of it. The fact that it was published should be a source of public embarrassment.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Well, published in Analog, the preferred SF magazine for quinquagenarian and sexagenarian engineers. It's been one long dark age for Analog since Bova left.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Some years ago I thought I might turn out to be a short story writer, and did some (in retrospect) half-hearted market research. Analog's submission guidelines just made me sad.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Do they actually require someone in each story to talk about the menaces of China or creeping socialism destroying America by getting everyone health insurance, and how everyone in space is superior to everyone not, or is that just a happy accident?

[jamoche]

The Zelazny's rather lightweight - fun, but not even close to his best. I wouldn't be surprised if his health was a contributing factor to the nomination.