[ SECRET POST #2691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2691 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/jJzGmke.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

...have you read the Grimnoir Chronicles? Or are you just going off a one-sentence blurb that praises a completely different series of his?

[(Anonymous)]

What is this series? Is it any good?

It sort of looks like dieselpunk to me.

[(Anonymous)]

It is dieselpunk, and it's awesome. The first one is called "Hard Magic"--it won an Audie award for best Audiobook. It's basically alternate history with people with superpowers in the 1930s.

[truxillogical]

A) I'm always a little tense about it b/c I worry that it's too close to something I'm writing (I don't think it actually is, but if you say 30's, alt history, magic...well...*shrug*)

B) If you like that, then I gotta rec "The Red Panda Adventure" from Decoder Ring Theatre.

[(Anonymous)]

It's amazing. Buy it, and buy the Monster Hunter series too.

[feotakahari]

Just looked up Vox Day after two references to him today. He sounds pretty vile, but what's his connection to this guy?

[(Anonymous)]

Other than the fact that they argue on Larry's blog and he was part of Larry's Hugo ballot (because Larry liked the story he wrote and is one of those people who separates the art from the artist)?

Nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

The guy is a fan of Vox's and asked his own fanbase to do some ballot stuffing on the Hugos to get him nominated.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so when Scalzi says "vote for me," that's totally legit promotion. When Correia does it and says "vote for these other works I also think are awesome," it's "ballot stuffing."

Even though the Hugos are totally a popularity contest.

Gotcha.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about this Scalzo guy, obviously if he tried it it didn't work because he's not on the ballot. However if all he was saying was "vote for me, I'm great" then that is fine. Don't care about that. However Corriea getting his base to vote for someone else to make a political point (that the wimmins are takings over his ski-fi, and the menz need to put them in their place) and not because of the actual writings themselves, that is not fine and that is ballot stuffing.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait? What? NM - I think I'm gonna back away while I can still read and enjoy his work. Knowing more about writers/actors/whatevers never, ever works out for me.

[(Anonymous)]

..."This Scalzo guy"?

You mean the guy who won last year? That guy?

That's not what Correia did. And that's not the point he was making either.

[(Anonymous)]

John Scalzi is the current president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and 2013 Best Novel Hugo winner. And no, he did not advocate ballot stuffing, all he did (as he does every year) was list his eligible works when nomination time comes around. It's basically a For Your Consideration post.

What?

[(Anonymous)]

Can you give me one direct quote from Larry Correia that suggests he's a sexist in any way? Because I've never heard one. I think you're making up your narrative and spewing it like its fact.

Ballot stuffing

[(Anonymous)]

By your definition every politician, actor, athlete, musician and writer that has ever won an election or an award based on a public vote is guilty of ballot stuffing.

What Larry did is standard practice in all popularity based award formats, especially the Hugo. Nominees have always encouraged others to vote for himself, herself or someone they feel is deserving, that is simply how the world works. The ludicrous part of this entire argument is the fact that many of those in the sci-fi author/fan community that are now making accusations of wrongdoing have done the same thing over the years.

So long as the individual ultimately casts their vote themselves and they do not submit more than that their allotted number of votes, it is not ballot stuffing.

[(Anonymous)]

Excuse me, but you've never heard of "Scalzi" - LAST YEAR's Hugo winner - and you think that because you know nothing you can make pronouncements about politics and fan activity in SF? Without an *informed* look at what is going on, what makes you think anyone should give what *you* say any credence?

[(Anonymous)]

Aww... I loved Hard Magic and thought there were plenty of memorable characters - within the genre constraints of a pseudo noir novel. I'd totally forgotten there were sequels. To Amazon!

My favorite series in a long while.

[(Anonymous)]

No spoilers, but I loved the altered quotes in the beginning of every chapter. Seriously had me googling random historical figures the entire time I was reading it. BRILLIANT series. And very worthy of awards. I'm just sad that people are trying to turn it into a nasty political fight. Ugh.

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't you know? Characterization is for wussy stories written by women who are too dumb to science and have to fall back on writing about their feels!

[(Anonymous)]

Only atheists need characterization and plot. Once you Jesus up then you know you gotta write Jesus needing male writers who write Jesus.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. So, like, the entire point of the Sad Puppies Campaign sailed right over your head, didn't it.

[truxillogical]

Anyone got a cliffnotes for the drama? I'm kind of out of the loop on which authors pissed who off now.

[(Anonymous)]

In a nutshell, Correia is a bluntly outspoken conservative gun nut. He campaigned rather vigorously to get not just his book, but other works and people he deemed worthy on the Hugo ballot. His campaign was successful and (incidentally) garnered more money for WorldCon as people bought voting memberships. This is, incidentally, no different than any other well-known author campaigning (Hello, John Scalzi), but because it was Correia, suddenly this was Evil and Not To Be Borne.

Cue a hissy fit of massive proportions as people began crying that the folks nominating those works and people were not "real fans," accusations of "ballot stuffing" and "fake votes," and rabid personal attacks on everyone on Larry's ballot, whether they were conservative or not.

Here's an explanation from the man himself: http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/24/an-explanation-about-the-hugo-awards-controversy/

[(Anonymous)]

There is nothing about this "secret" that fails to be completely stupid.

"I hope he doesn't win the Hugo based on a blurb about an unrelated series this guy wrote."

I am certain this person has not read the Grimnoir or Monster Hunter series. I can easily recall a lot about many characters from both series, but I'd be hard-pressed to remember what half of them are consistently armed with. Correia does characters very well, for the most part, and hasn't really got bogged down in superfluous gun detail since the first Monster Hunter International book. You know, the first one he published years ago. He started strong and has come a long way since then.

TL;DR: It only sounds like valid complaint... as long as you have no experience with the books.