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Interview with Cathy Young — part 2

*So in March? April? Cathy young interviewed me about the Hugos, and I gave her my trademark long answers. Her article is up now, but she’d graciously agreed to letting me post my original answers when it came out, so here it is (not a verification thing, she’s okay, even if she is a journalist.;) I thought you might want to see it, is all.*

(4) Do you think Sad Puppies is also a backlash (and I don’t mean that in a negative sense) against the dominance of “social justice” activists in blog a...

Interview with Cathy Young, Part One

*So in March? April? Cathy young interviewed me about the Hugos, and I gave her my trademark long answers. Her article is up now, but she’d graciously agreed to letting me post my original answers when it came out, so here it is (not a verification thing, she’s okay, even if she is a journalist.;) I thought you might want to see it, is all.*

(1) Were you/are you directly involved with the Sad Puppies project, or are you simply a supporter?

I’m a friend of Brad’s and Larry’s and have taken pa...

Offensitivity – Cedar Sanderson

Offensitivity – Cedar Sanderson

I started out my research for this post looking for the one right word that summed up what I was going to explain. Surely I remembered that there was a psychological term for the people who get a rush out of attacking other people when instigated and when it could be done at little to no risk of harm to themselves? I asked friends, and we all mulled it over… turns out, no, there isn’t a single word. Although the one that Berkeley Breathed invented back in 1982...

The DERP goes on

UPDATE: This is not for an audio book, it’s just a reading. Yes, I’m tense, I HATE reading. I have a Yeti microphone. What I don’t have is a file converter. My computer recording goes to wma, which WordPress won’t let me upload. So I used an online converter to mp3. The original file is if anything too loud. SIGH. If anyone knows a safe-to-download converter, tell me.

I was trying to test this before letting ya’ll try it. yes, I know it’s stupid, but I can’t stand to hear to MY OWN voice. Hey...

Something Is Rotten In Goldport

It was a bright and stormy night. Moonlight glinted off the snow-packed streets, sparkled from the falling flakes, and found an echo in the strings of lights around parking lots, in the lights around lightpoles, and in the light shining from the windows of a diner in Downtown Goldport.

Though the area had recently started on the upswing of gentrification,only that one diner at the corner of Fairfax and Pride was open during what would become known as the New Year’s Blizzard of 2015, the worst...

I’ve Been To The Desert On A Horse With No Name

And what a long, strange trip it’s been.

And yes, when I heard those in Portugal as a kid I had NO clue they were about drug use. Heck, it took a lot for me to realize Phillip K. Dick’s novels had drug use. Yes, I was an innocent little snowflake.

Now considerably less innocent.

So, let’s talk fandom. I like you guys, obviously. In fact, I like all of my fans.

I’ve reached the level of name recognition where people embarrass me in my “normal” life, tm. Like, I’ll be buying something and someo...

Fauxtrage

So, in this post, I said this:

I don’t mean I wish a different set of books/stories had won. That is only to the extent that the DELIBERATE and PARTISAN slighting of such unexceptionable luminaries as Kevin J. Anderson and Jim Butcher (Yes, yes Three Body Problem. Well, I didn’t find it worth it, but I bet you half the people who voted for it voted either under the illusion they were favoring Chicoms OR as a slam against the puppies.But quite beyond that the block voting for the clumsy Ancill...

Pointless Discrimination – Christopher Nuttall

Pointless Discrimination – Christopher Nuttall

I’m going to start with a question and I would like you to consider it carefully before answering.

Is discrimination ever a good thing?

I suspect that most people will say, in a kneejerk response, no. And they wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. Irrational discrimination is always wrong. But there is also such a thing as rational discrimination.

Consider the following example. You’re the manager of a mid-sized swimming pool. You have to hire someone...

Race to the Bottom

So I was going to write a post about what I started calling Science Fiction’s Great Divorce a complicated and therefore long-delayed post, but, so, this happened on twitter.

“Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette · 12h12 hours ago Thank you to Sarah Hoyt, for introducing me to “Chicom,” which was an ethnic slur I didn’t know.”

And here is the screenshot, as apparently the tweet has gone down the memory hole, or at least some can’t find it (I don’t respond for the tech competency of my minions.)...

Something to Tide You Over

Yes, I’m fine, just slept too late and am taking time to collect my thoughts, but meanwhile, this:

http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/radio/nerdrevolt-27-sad-puppies-proven-right-remain-sad/