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Aren’t they hemorrhaging money?
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) - Nerds protecting nonces
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I think that just proves his point. lol
Irish Turtle
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Have you guys heard of jack l chalker all this guys books are basically sissyifaction fantasies
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Not all of them, sometimes there's just weird uncomfortable stuff going on with centaurs without the sissyification.
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wasn't he one of the C-list fantasy guys from the 70s-90s that's about as recognized as piers anthony
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Award winning author John Scalzi won another award, for being such an all around awesome author. (Per Jon of the Rice)
doesn't look like they've updated their website yet to list all the award winners, but I'm sure the pozzing will continue at least until sales improve.
doesn't look like they've updated their website yet to list all the award winners, but I'm sure the pozzing will continue at least until sales improve.
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Is it mandatory to wear a shitass ugly shirt? That looks like something my dad would have worn 30 years ago.
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The best Novel this year was apparently this:
Sounds like he won on name recognition alone.
He did this for charity mind you, but still.
Sounds like he won on name recognition alone.
John's always had an...interesting choice in fashion...
He did this for charity mind you, but still.
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I mean, he has a track record that isn't just shitlib retarded IDPOL books but I do wonder if they let him have this as a consolation prize.
In a non-clown world, he'd probably have just been a Hugo nominee and the Dragon award woulda gone to someone that deserved it.
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I have a better picture for y'all.
Inside info: only 7K total votes were cast for the Dragons, down from 10K last year. People are pulling out of it and don't care anymore. Tor probably won it with just their employees voting.
Of bigger note and as a white pill: Orson Scott Card showed up with almost zero advance notice. He had lines around the block and several whisper network authors were FURIOUS that he outshone all of them just by being there, whining about it the whole time.
Inside info: only 7K total votes were cast for the Dragons, down from 10K last year. People are pulling out of it and don't care anymore. Tor probably won it with just their employees voting.
Of bigger note and as a white pill: Orson Scott Card showed up with almost zero advance notice. He had lines around the block and several whisper network authors were FURIOUS that he outshone all of them just by being there, whining about it the whole time.
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Have you ever been to LibertyCon seems like a fun con.
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It is small and literally sells out on Day 1 when tickets go on sale from what I understand.
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I was helping run a much smaller, similarly-minded con on the day registration opened and we literally set aside a block of time for people to register so they wouldn't get shut out.
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@Fandom Pulse
In the John Scalzi and Chuck Wendig Sweep Dragon Awards As Sci-Fi, you say
Is there a reason for this turning away from dragon awards?
In the John Scalzi and Chuck Wendig Sweep Dragon Awards As Sci-Fi, you say
Is there a reason for this turning away from dragon awards?
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Baen publishes a lot of stuff by authors with conservative views and they're collectively tired of being shit on and having legit good stuff ignored in favor of who can prostrate themselves most fully to wokeness.
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Gen Con Fires Its Entire Staff Of Woke Sci-Fi And Fantasy Writers From Its Writers' Symposium
Gen Con might be making moves to get away from woke activism, possibly from complaints of science fiction and fantasy fans who want the Writers' Symposium to be about writing.
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Gen Con has been known for its woke activism over the last decade, miring the convention in identity politics when it used to be known as the greatest table gaming convention in existence. Nothing has been worse in this regard than the Gen Con Writers’ Symposium. This writing track was supposed to highlight great writers in science fiction and fantasy but instead devolved into SFWA’s political arm. After several years of failure, Gencon fired every staff member from the symposium to get a clean slate for the following year.
The Gen Con Writers’ Symposium is a veritable who’s who of SFWA clout chasers, mostly comprised of failed authors who use identity politics to get small publishing deals but rarely sell.
Here, one would see the likes of Cat Rambo, former SFWA president, and Monica Valenteinelli, a woman who publicly attacked OdysseyCon and bowed out because she didn’t want to be associated with a “known sexual harasser” which she accused a man of with no evidence. Patrick S. Tomlinson, a failed author and mentally ill Tweeter who infamously sued an online forum because they made fun of him, is also a guest year after year.
Looking at the lineup, woke activism and clout within SFWA are the only qualifiers for being featured guests and getting speaking slots at the convention. This year, Gencon decided to take action as the Writers’ Symposium devolved into worse divisive politics than ever, perhaps a move to get the symposium on a better track for the future.
Emily Bell (E.D.E. Bell) was the one who leaked the news on her Facebook, saying, “The GCWS committee was informed tonight at the very end of the meeting with Gen Con, with no reason given, that while our show went "really well" - no people on the 2024 committee will be invited back next year. I will be requesting a meeting with Mr. Adkison. At a minimum, I would like a reason given for our dismissal, because without a reason I will only have my own documentation to show, regarding how Gen Con addressed issues of both race and disability.”
Admittedly, Bell says she tried to make “race and disability” a more important issue than writing and science fiction and fantasy. She continued on her blog, “Many people were upset that I spoke publicly and also used the terms ‘race’ and ‘disability’. I spoke publicly, because I’d stayed silent all year, and this was the result. Based on that treatment, I had no confidence anything I said internally would make its way to Mr. Adkison. I used the terms not as a threat, but to convey why this is serious and why I want to talk to him personally.”
One can see the entitlement, as her activism in leftist political virtue signaling is supposed to give her a shield in her mind to maintain her authority positions in places like the Gen Con Writers’ Symposium in perpetuity. With “many people upset” because she tried to make it completely political and not about writing, as the headline stated, it makes sense that she would be removed if this is, in fact, the reason.
This wasn’t the only shocking political activism to happen at Gen Con. Cat Rambo, another serial member of the symposium speaking lineup, was accused of ranting about Jews in New York Publishing by a whistleblower at the convention. While she had the Gen Con Writing Symposium BlueSky account used as a bully pulpit to deny the allegations, many people came forward, recalling she did just as Fandom Pulse reported through the whistleblower.
The Symposium official account on BlueSky and Facebook appear to be controlled by E.D.E. Bell, too, as it’s currently reposting the complaints by Emily Bell to try to rile up the leftist mob to flood the Gen Con organizers with harassment over the firings. Many of the posts from the BlueSky account feature Bell, her badge photos, and so it appears as if she attempted to co-opt the Gen Con Writers’ Symposium as her own personal promotional arm.
Gen Con has a big mess because these people care far more about these clout positions than they do anything else, because it’s the only thing they have. These are failed authors who can’t do anything to get attention for their books, and so they make noise through leftist politics to get them into industry positions where they sound far more important than they are.
It remains to be seen whether Gen Con is starting from scratch because it wants to bolster attendance after a failure or whether the politically charged statements by Emily Bell and Cat Rambo upset far too many attendees and they want to move away from this kind of activism. Regardless, without the influence of the SFWA elites, the Gen Con Writers’ Symposium can only be better.
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I tried to understand the Gencon clusterfuck and the best I can come up with is that a white writer is claiming that she was fired because of racism and Gencon says she was fired because they gave her money to bring in four guests and she only brought in two and had no explanation for what happened to the rest of the money. Gee, I wonder which story is true?
Also, I looked up E.D.E. Bell's books and they are genuinely embarrassingly awful amateurish crap. I can't imagine why a major convention wouldn't want their writer's symposium run by the author of this masterpiece:
Also, I looked up E.D.E. Bell's books and they are genuinely embarrassingly awful amateurish crap. I can't imagine why a major convention wouldn't want their writer's symposium run by the author of this masterpiece:
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Wait that book is real? It's not a parody of SJW books?
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May have something to do with the Dragon Awards turfing Cedar Sanderson's book for using AI art. Problem: that's not listed as a restriction.
Baen Books was at the convention, for what it's worth.
Huddy Ledbetter
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I read the first paragraph on Amazon and it's amazingly bad. Like something a ten year old would write. There really are no standards in Scifi anymore. The days of Damon Knight reducing writers to tears with his critiques of their work are long gone. It's all participation trophies now. For fuck's sake, these people keep giving awards to Paul Weimer, who seems genuinely incapable of constructing a grammatically correct sentence.