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⌈ Secret Post #3100 ⌋

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[Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Dishonored 2]

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[Gaia Online]

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[Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco (+P!nk, Teresa Marie)]

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[Winona Ryder in Heathers]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Miraculous Ladybug]

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[The Mentalist]

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[Legend]

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[Spy (2015)]

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[Bridget Marquardt, Girls Next Door]

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It sort of doesn't matter who you get on the slate if you argue that the slate is a protest against "political" (feminist and multicultural) science fiction. Never mind that this started before any of them were born, except for Wright who was in grade school, or the politics of Heinlein and Ellison, and let's just pretend that Roddenberry wasn't remotely political and utopian.

It was a protest against Message Fiction at the expense of Story. I don't know about you, but I dislike being preached at, even by my own side. Of course there will be a message, because that's the essence of good fiction, but if that's all there is, with the characters being thinly-veiled mouthpieces for the author's viewpoint, then it's not a story, it's a screed.

Full disclosure: I am a conservative female SFF writer. And I'm under the distinct impression that I'd better keep my fuckin' mouth shut as far as my politics go, or the gatekeepers will bury me and send their dogs to eat what's left. I am fairly certain (if my Twitter feed is any indication) that liberal authors feel no such strictures.

If there was any sort of balance, I doubt we'd be having this debate. But there's not. So it skewed a bit to the right this time, and well. That's how the cookie crumbles. Next year will probably be different.

Ah yes, SFF is notorious for not having any conservative writers in it. *snort* I imagine this claim sounds a lot more legit to people who know nothing of SFF's history or SFF authors, anon.

There's no lack of message fiction from either side of the fence. In fact, one of the Rabid Puppy stories (disqualified due to prior publication) appears to have been a thinly veiled gospel piece with the serial numbers filed off.

But frankly, I agree with Martin that evidence of a conspiracy of gatekeepers has been sorely lacking. The Puppy works had equal or better sales with Butcher on the NYT list. Card was on the NYT list last year in spite of controversy. Wolfe got a lifetime achievement award. Tumblr and twitter are a megaphone for cranks (some of which were recruited by the Rabid Puppies), but frankly, I don't think shoppers at Amazon and Barnes and Noble really know or care what you post there. It's tempest in a teapot stuff.

But staying off of twitter is becoming a good PR move, even if you're completely apolitical.

Edited 2015-07-01 01:33 (UTC)

Amazing how the gatekeepers haven't been able to "bury" all those big names of SF who aren't liberal, eh? Robert A. Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, David Weber, Poul Anderson, Orson Scott Card... all poor, persecuted souls who toil away in complete obscurity, thanks to the vast liberal conspiracy. Why, they've even managed to silence modern day prophets like Vox Day, Larry Correia, John C. Wright and Brad Torgersen, right? None of those guys are allowed to voice their views and they don't have any following whatsoever because nobody's ever heard of them. Totally buried by those nasty gatekeepers. Oh wait...

If your work doesn't seem to be getting the attention and accolades you believe it deserves, there may be many reasons for why that is. But being "buried" by these so-called gatekeepers (zero evidence for them, BTW) is not one of them.

Well, no, because the gatekeepers (by which I mean the vast majority of editors, including magazine, ezine, and Big Six book publishers) may be liberal ideologues, but they also have an eye on their bottom line. The people you named above make piles of money for them, so they're not going to shoot the golden geese. That would be stupid. I don't think they're stupid.

Up-and-comers may be a different story. I didn't make a complaint about my own work; it's doing fairly well, actually, and I've got a novel and a few shorts coming out soon, published by people not me. I just said I felt like I needed to keep my mouth shut. I could be completely wrong about this impression. I hope I am, in fact, because I don't like to think that people I respect on a professional level could be that petty.

But why should I take chances? See how anonymous I'm being?

Maybe once I'm sleeping on a mattress made of money in a solid gold house on Yard Moose Mountain, I'll speak up more. At this point, I mostly don't. Because I don't need the personal or professional headache.

First of all, lol, you are not in the SFF community if you think all conservative voices have been silenced, and that only liberal fiction is "message" fiction.

Second, even if there was some silencing going on, do you really think the best approach to solving that is to hold an awards ceremony hostage and try to eliminate all voices from the opposite side? Because that is Vox Day's stated goal, and whether you and they like it or not, the Sad Puppies are helping him in this.

Did I say "all," or that only liberal fiction is message fic? No, I did not. Of course there's pushback. As there should be. But for you to say that I'm "not in the SFF community" based on this is, frankly, laughable.

I'm pretty sure that Vox just wants to watch the world burn. But this year is done, and I'm not sure what the Puppies can do at this point except let the fallout happen. I don't think the Sad Puppies want to "eliminate" other voices so much as "expand the base." I've seen a lot of people say "oh, hey, I didn't know I had a say in this thing, very cool." Getting more people involved can only dilute Vox's influence. We need to invite more people to the pool party, not slam the clubhouse door shut.

Also, you can defend a guy's right to say stupid shit without defending the actual stupid shit he says.

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