Knives out
In which Geoff Ryman insults nearly every sci-fi fan and writer who ever lived.
1. Thanks for implying that we're all no better than children indulging in adolescent fantasies you asshole. These so-called childish dreams are what brings in cash and readership. Think about it next time before you insult an entire fandom, and I'm not speaking of Harry Potter slashfic writers.
2. If you're truly a fucking mundaner, write a novel that actually counts as one for once, you fucking hypocrite.
ETA (in an attempt to avoid possible flame wars): My issue is only with the author acting like a condescending twit. I have nothing against his fans.
ETA 2: Partly Mundanity was also the result of asking: what’s worked best in the past? My favourite SF authors such as Philip K Dick, J G Ballard, Samuel Delaney or Walter Miller tended to avoid those particular tropes.
LOL! And typical.
...For me personally, there is something in the nexus of Mother Earth, femininity, domesticity, women’s power over reproduction of that clump together in a kind of misapplied need to leave home. A real future will have an everyday life and a home just as domestic as the one the dream needs to leave. So it does not dream of a real future....
Am I misreading this, or Is he implying what I think he's implying?
1. Thanks for implying that we're all no better than children indulging in adolescent fantasies you asshole. These so-called childish dreams are what brings in cash and readership. Think about it next time before you insult an entire fandom, and I'm not speaking of Harry Potter slashfic writers.
2. If you're truly a fucking mundaner, write a novel that actually counts as one for once, you fucking hypocrite.
ETA (in an attempt to avoid possible flame wars): My issue is only with the author acting like a condescending twit. I have nothing against his fans.
ETA 2: Partly Mundanity was also the result of asking: what’s worked best in the past? My favourite SF authors such as Philip K Dick, J G Ballard, Samuel Delaney or Walter Miller tended to avoid those particular tropes.
LOL! And typical.
...For me personally, there is something in the nexus of Mother Earth, femininity, domesticity, women’s power over reproduction of that clump together in a kind of misapplied need to leave home. A real future will have an everyday life and a home just as domestic as the one the dream needs to leave. So it does not dream of a real future....
Am I misreading this, or Is he implying what I think he's implying?