George R. R. Martin -- A Giant, Shackled by Dwarfs, up on Fantastic Worlds

[jordan179]

"George R. R. Martin --

A Giant, Shackled By Dwarfs"

© 2015

by

Jordan S. Bassior

Some people were surprised and others saddened when George R. R. Martin came out against the Sad Puppies 3 campaign to restore control of the Hugos to the fans, and expressed (some) support for the Scalzi cabal which is currently trying to control the nominations and

Comments

[kharmii]

Interesting point about the draft in the other post.

I've been following George RR Martin's long as LJ posts about this. The main thing I'm getting from it is that 1.) He doesn't believe the Scalzi cabal exists -and- 2.) He thinks the awards will be ruined when everyone else campaigns the way Sad Puppies did.

I just learned about this whole drama yesterday, but I think it's interesting that some people believe the Sad Puppies have been nominating actual quality work, while the sjws want works with gay issues, non-binary gender issues and fluff that makes people 'feel' for these types. No thanks. I just want my fantasy stories to be about dragons and wizards.

Some think Martin is evil because he has rape in his stories?! Have the people who think that even read his stories?! The world of ASolaF is terribly brutal. :-P

OT but what is with LJ lately? It's been hella slow and when I try and post an entry I have to attempt five or six times because the 'post entry' button will be unhighlightable, yet the 'delete entry' option would

[jordan179]

Among the damage the Vietnam War -- both in terms of the Communist propaganda that successfully demonized it, and the weaselly half-assed way that we fought it at the highest levels (not our troops, but the Executive Branch, especially under LBJ but also under Nixon) -- has done to our culture is that it left a whole subset of the Boomer generation with a legacy of having cheered on our enemies and the destruction of three small nations which were victims of Communist aggression -- South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This pretty much forces them to remain Leftists, because admitting that they were wrong -- that they were on the side of the aggressors of their day, and betrayed their own nation in wartime to do it -- would be too emotionally-painful

[wombat_socho]

Some of those who were anti-American leftists during Vietnam have repented. David Horowitz is just the most prominent example.

Personally, I think it has more to do with him being unable to credit that his friends have turned the Hugos into the sad, withered in-joke they have been for years, until the Sad Puppies came along to upset the applecart.

[jordan179]

Yes, but Horowitz is exceptional. And it took the outright murder of a friend followed by his other friends denying what had happened because to admit that the Black Panthers were just crazy thugs rather than noble rebels would have been embarrassing to the Cause, to start to snap him out of his delusions. It helped that Horowitz was hard core Left -- one of the Red Diaper Babies, who knew full well that Communists were behind the "peace" movement (because he was ONE OF THEM), and hence couldn't hide behind his illusions.

[igorilla]

Thanks, a very interesting POV and quite possible right on the money !

[marycatelli]

" I just want my fantasy stories to be about dragons and wizards."

Well, some of us writers are trying to supply the need. 0:)

[mosinging1986]

MOAR DRAGONS, PLEASE!

[marycatelli]

You want a list of my published stories with dragons?

[mosinging1986]

OOO! Yes!

[marycatelli]

On sale now, at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and many other fine online vendors:

Short works:
Dragon Slayer
The Dragon's Cottage
Dragonfire and Time

As e-works. You can also buy them in the collections Enchantments and Dragons andCurses and Wonders, either as ebooks or dead tree -- err, yes, I did split them up.

And the novel:
Madeleine and the Mists Also available as dead tree and ebook.

[mosinging1986]

LJ hates me lately so I can't go to your LJ to check, but are these all parts of a series or are they standalones?

[marycatelli]

All stand-alones.

[mosinging1986]

Great, thanks!