Because I am an introspective person I’ve occasionally asked myself if I really was on the right side of 2015. Then I remember that Arthur
Category: Tornadoes in Teacups
Fear and Loathing at the Awards Table, part 6
It’s rhetorical pogrom season, in the Peoples Republic of Science Fiction. The 2016 Hugo award selection list (aka: final ballot) has been released, and we
Tolerance in the 21st century
Wait, wait, I think I get it now. If I am insufficiently hateful of a hater who hates, I am therefore a secret hater? And
SAD PUPPIES: the march of the straw men
Ever since this Breitbart article appeared, a small legion of straw man arguments have been deployed against the current season of SAD PUPPIES. I was
When ignorant snobs attack
Tonight I chanced across this smelly little gem: Baen books specialises in works of “military SF” that, behind their appalling prose styles and laughable retro
Fear and Loathing at the Awards Table 5: Sad Puppies 2 post mortem
Snipped from a comment I made to David (“Trouble with Tribbles”) Gerrold, on Facebook, during a remarkably civil discussion about this past year’s Hugo award
Brad R. Torgersen 