Because I know we have some overlap with OnA members... god I wish they allowed new posting members, I have SO MUCH inside baseball to share.
Keep it up you mad lads. I'd by you all a drink if I didn't need to keep my head down to keep my job. Rest assured though we in the knowing silent resistance are gleefully enjoying your commentary. It and a luncheon with some sword and sorcery authors and editors this weekend are likely to be my Worldcon highlights.
Unless I get to watch Lindsay Ellis get crucified, or Tomlinson have a public meltdown at least.
I've been wanting to question
@Boston Brand all day about this image of the people Pat is doing book signings the same day as:
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I saw it at work, and was so curious I started googling all of them because
I hadn't heard of a single one besides Ellis, who isn't even an author.
Derek Kunsken has authored 3 books. Unlike Fatrick, however, one of his books actually has nearly a thousand reviews and 4 stars on amazon (it drops off a cliff after that).
Dan Moren is a shitlib excessive tweeter (9/10 of these retards are) who has authored five books, none of which have broken 300 reviews on Amazon.
G. David Nordley wrote... well I'm not sure if he wrote any actual books. On amazon he has less than half a dozen "collection of short stories" in kindle form for sell. One of the most reviewed of which has... 2 reviews.
Juliette Wade seems like someone Fatrick should be tweeting at all the time, since her politics completely match his in that they're both insufferable fat cows. She's written two books, the best of which tops out at 26 reviews. Pink hair and old. 'Nuff said.
Steven H Silver wrote A book in 2020. 87 reviews. Contributed to several anthologies too, most of which seem more popular than he is.
Marie Vibbert wrote A book in march of this year. 55 reviews. Also contributed to a coping/dilating/seething "book" called Resist Fascism, a collection of short stories about why orange man bad. 4 reviews.
Tom Doyle not sure who this actually is because amazon pulled up a writer of Christian books and books about the middle east more popular than any of these rejects are so far. I'm not sure he'd lower himself to being in the same room as any of them.
Suzanne Palmer wrote three books, her best of which hit over 300 reviews. Definitely a big winner among this crowd.
John Appel has written one book in this year, it has 30 reviews. Despite being a fat bald old white man who looks like The Ugly Bastard all the characters in the synopsis have african names and the woman on the cover is black. I honestly want to see pictures of his wife, I may read this eventually just for laughs.
Michael Capobianco co-wrote a bunch of books in the 90s with Barton. His most recent book was in 2017, and has 5 reviews.
Lindsay Ellis is a drunk retard.
Jennifer Povey has written
~17 books, which makes her one of the most prolific authors on the list aside from Fatrick. Yet almost all of them have a stunning
zero reviews. Hilariously, she also might be even sadder than Fatrick as far as shitlib tweeters go. She spends way too much time tweeting boring, self-hating, boilerplate lib opinions despite never getting a single like on any of them. She has nearly 10,000 followers. All of which must be bought, because I scrolled through nearly 2 pages of tweets and only saw a single one with 1 like. It was... well, sad is too nice a word for it. At least fatrick is entertaining enough as a circus act. Poor Povey doesn't even have that.
Marie Brennan looks like she wrote one book that was pretty popular by the standards of the other people I've posted. Most notable for having an above average mildly cute photo of herself on amazon, despite being a 3/10 uggo (twitter photo). Camera magic is crazy. Also makes $383 a month off of patreon paypigs. Very big league, this girl(?).
Alyc Helms wrote two books, the last of which was over 5 years ago. Why is she even here? Makes $31 a month on patreon, and on twitter she simps for Marie Brennan (gee, I wonder why she's here?).
I guess my question for Boston is, how bad has worldcon gotten that Fatrick looks like a rock star compared to half of these people?
No wonder the con didn't bother hyping uo the guest list if this is who SFWA could get out. Hell, NK Jemison didn't even bother showing up this year (smart money says its SFWA token "Native Amwrican" Rebecca Roanhorse's turn to win) and thier biggest names are John Scalzi, Seanan Maguire and Mary R. Kowel... fuck no wonder Ellis thinks she has a shot with this crowd, they really did drive off all the talent.
Let's get roasting shall we? I've actually met nore than half these people, so this is gonna be fun:
Derek Kunsken - Decent author, decent bloke. What passes for a military scifi author in SFWA these days since Baen snaps up all the A-listers ans rising talent that eventually end up A-listers.
Dan Moran - Longtime sycophant from the press who sucked up long enough to get a book deal.
G. David Nordley - Actually a really decent bloke - damned good author of short fiction, a textbook example of the kind of old guard SFWA author who knows he's too white, too male, and too talented for this crowd, but doesn't have the heart to cut the cord... and sadly too old and not nearly successful enough to break off at this point probably. LOT of short fiction authors fall into that issue, where SFWA is supposed to do some good for them.
Juliette Wade - Compared to Nordley, the kind of author SFWA would very much like to be thier new base... that being a white lesbian more interested in talking about social justice than actually writing. Shockingly, not that good at the latter.
Steven H Silver - A paradox... that is to say a total sadsack but also a decent bloke. Mostly a behind the scenes guy - runs the Sideways Awards, really involved with fanzines. The kind of old hand that was once the backbone of spec fiction fandom, and has settled into being a doormat in his twilight years.
Marie Vibbert - Absolute harpy, but the odd one to have occasional gems, if tou don't mind digging them out of sewage. Her stories in Analog are solid. Her political spergery is not.
Tom Doyle - the one you want is
this poindexter right here, who writes scifi about as limp as you'd expect for a guy who looks like the nerd who gets sand kicked in his face in Charles Atlas ads.
Suzanne Palmer - Another prime specimen of what SFWA seems to want to rebuild themselves and the Hugo around. If you can't tell, the kind of author who literally cut of thier balls to get a Hugo.
John Appel - This guy just makes me sad - retired Army veteran, who as far as I can tell, went bugnuts after 2016... I have not read his novel, but it got a good review in the most recent issue of Analog, so I made a point to check it out... warning bells aside. Total Covid cuck too, he canceled his appearance at Worldcon over fear of Omicron. If I'd become a total fatbody like he did after leaving the service, maybe I'd be worried too.
Michael Capobianco - Two term former President of SFWA, from the golden years where having testicles still attached to your body didn't instantly disqualify you for leadership in the organization. A mensch, who like a lot of the old hands still sticking around, can't being themselves to admit the organization and fandom he helped build got shot behind the woodshed, and now a bunch of trannies and catladies are fighting over which one gets to make a skinsuit out if it.
Lindsay Ellis - Dear god, no wonder the Nostalgia Chick took one look at this crowd and thought she had a shot of becoming Queen Bitch in Charge. She's misjudged that career move as horribly as her publisher did her book deal, given wino cat ladies they may be, but they see her the way sharks look at a whale.
Jennifer Povey - My god are they that stripped of actual talent on site this sad sack is a star attraction? A staple of the mid Atlantic convention scene for years, crazy cat lady, and has the social skills of a goldfish. Prime SFWA material, but she has such little talent even they can't drag her to more than self-publishing, and lacks to connections to go higher.
Marie Brennan - The best author here by a mile, its not even close. Prolific, smart as a whip, actually sort of fun to be around... pretty much the kind of author all the Cat Rambo/Seanan MaGuire/Mary Kowal THINK they are, but lack the actual talent or personality. Brennan meanwhile, lacks the connections to get the kind of profile she probably deserves.
Alyc Helms - Hell, even I had to google this literal nobody.
Yet somehow Patrick Tomlinson and Lindsay Ellis are still the worst of the bunch.
As for how it got this way? By design.
This crowd literally chased away everyone not part of thier little club so they can feel like the big shots.
That's why they hated the Puppies. How can any one of these morons pulling down $300 on Patreon look at Larry "custom built mountaintop fortress" Correia, and dare think they're on the same level.
That's why they drove of Martin, and in doing so, sent a message to other big name authors: these people's books can be bought cheaper than toilet paper, how the hell are they supposed to feel like thier work deserves a Hugo if they gotta share a room with guys like Orson Scott Card or Larry Niven, whose work sells thousands of copies every month and will be legendary long after thier deaths?
That's why all the panels are rainbow warrior shit nobody but them cares about - and mind you they fired all the local organizers WHO PUT THE CON TOGETHER in the first place, including tossing out some interesting panel programming and guests, for this crap. Mostly the same panels as LAST Worldcon. Why wouldn't the only thing they want to talk about be themselves?
That's why they hate Baen, self publishers and thier like - not only because they don't toe the line, but to this crew of tye died degenerates and social justice car ladies, even the most introverted of that lot looks like Ryan fucking Reynolds.
So now they have turned Worldcon, SFWA and the Hugos into thier own clubhouse...
If more people outside actually looked inside it more often, you'd realize how pathetic this crowd really is.
And why I'm so frustrated they have so much of spec fiction by the short and curlies... because if god willing they got as much grief from shit posters and joe public as Fat Pat gets, they would break.
Joe Haldeman is a titan among these literary midgets.
He is the last of the really big names who still came to Worldcon... after what happened with Martin last year, everyone explicitly not part of the "in" crowd stayed away.
After what he saw in Vietnam, I doubt much of anything scares him, much less this club of circlejerking sad sacks. Only reason he's not the biggest vet badass in fandom is because David Drake exists.
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