This is James' scowling face

[james_davis_nicoll]

Necrolaboration strikes again:


QUANTUM MORTIS The Programmed Mind [Kindle Edition]
Vox Day (Author), Jeff Sutton (Author), Jean Sutton (Author)

Comments

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

The Suttons are still around? And associated with VD?

Oh, now I see "necro" collaboration. So it's just grave robbing. My memories of reading "The Programmed Man" at age 10 are still (mostly) unsullied.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I wonder if there's a way to get Vox Day to leave Latin alone. What did Latin ever do to him?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

So Vox made a few "improvements" and bashed it in to his Quantum Mortis universe?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Ewww - I remember (although not very well, so I could perhaps discover the suck fairy if I reread them) greatly enjoying Jean & Jeff Sutton books as a childen and very young teen, and that's just wrong.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What other items do customers buy after viewing this item: A John C Wright, another Vox Day, and "Trans People Fuck Right The Fuck Off, Fuck You All" by Tom Kratman.

Wow.

...

wow.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The comments on this one are ... interesting. (http://www.amazon.com/Transhuman-Subhuman-Essays-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B00K4D7LO6/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GSM61K82E7YPWNPT1SF)

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Interesting in that half the comments have the same writing style?

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Interesting in that they're all either shills or Voxbots?

Robert Quimbey: Two reviews, one for VD back in 2012, the other for the anti-trans nonsense.

Zion's Paladin: One review, the Wright book.

Michelle: Six reviews, three for Wright, two for VD, one SM Stirling.

Bernard Brandt: 12 reviews, one for Wright, five for VD, seems to be a legit review from a Voxbot and not a shill review.

T Tucker: 23 reviews, 11 for VD, 2 for Wright, one for the exact same Kratman that a bunch of these same reviewers also reviewed.

Benjamin D Steele: Sweet mother of mercy, a real reviewer! Lots of reviews for a host of books, no VD or Wright fetish. Not coincidentally, the only non-five-star review, too.

Jason: Two reviews, one this book, one some agitprop he reviewed in 2011.

L Diebold: Five reviews, three VD, one Wright, and that Kratman again.

Brooks G Friend: Seven reviews, three VD, one Duck Dynasty.

Darth McKay: Six reviews, three VD, two Wright, and that Kratman book again.

Bridal Veil Mountain: Six reviews, various products, only two for books: this Wright and one Dorothy Parker.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Going along the list of "What other items do.." is interesting: more Krapman, more Vox, more Wright, Sarah Hoyt, Larry Correia, Chris Nuttall... it's a small and incestuous world these buyers inhabit.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Chris Nuttall

Now there's a name I didn't expect to see in that parade.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

He was definitely well into right-wing waters when he left ah.com,[1] but this is a definite descent into bad company...


[1] http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=106381

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Parts of the UK definitely seem to have a stick up its behind regarding immigration--seems rather weird to me, honestly. I mean, multiculturalism has been the explicit setup of Canada's immigration system for the last forty years, and yet somehow the country has not collapsed into a smoking ruin. One would think that British culture, having centuries and centuries of continuity, would be more robust than Anglo-Canadian culture, which barely existed before 1800.

Also, is there some kind of style guide that makes people leaning conservative consistently refer to "the Left," as if it's some giant monolithic organization with membership cards and weekly newsletters?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Especially since people who self - identify as the Left spend most of their time grousing about how the exact same people are not really the Left.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

I think people who self-identify as being on the Right either don't notice the Left's ruthless self-divisions, or believe it's merely for show, to disguise their true intentions.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

There is a human tendency to impute a monolithic nature to People Who Aren't Like You [1]; if you have some degree of self-awareness you can try to work around it, but a high degree of self-awareness is not a hallmark of many people on the Right.

[1]Rather like the tendency to generalize from a small set of observations; everyone does that. Well, I do, anyway.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Anti-immigration rhetoric appears whenever the local economy is felt to be in trouble; on the other hand there's also the fringe who's afraid of anyone different. I can't speculate what's motivating any particular current British meme-carrier.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I really liked Jean and Jeff Sutton's The Beyond when I was a kid. I see it's selling for $138 on Amazon. That's about all I know about them.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

What I really want to know is, did the heirs sell the rights, or did they forget to renew the copyright?

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Or VD thought the copyright had lapsed, but then got a letter from the estate (thus making the "coauthorship" credit necessary).