Ah, the long term plan emerges
Dec. 30th, 2012 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollTheo "Vox Day" Beale, having previously asserted such interesting things as
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
Catherine Asaro’s The Quantum Rose, which won the Best Novel award in 2002, is perhaps the most egregious example; Asaro was the SFWA President at the time,
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
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Date: 2012-12-31 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-02 12:57 am (UTC)I'm sorry you don't understand Dr. Pournelle's work. It can be esoteric.
LeGuin's work, of course, is certainly accessible to anybody bright enough to grasp Vonnegut.
But as regards lifetime influence on SF, which is the only meaningful criterion of Grandmaster status... come to think of it, the issue becomes moot, as the only real Grandmaster would be Heinlein.