George R. R. Martin on Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 28 Apr 2015, 21:26 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:26:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) George R. R. Martin on Gene Wolfe
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On Tue, April 28, 2015 11:41, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> To call the Hugos "politicized" is to miss the point: it is the Puppies
> who
> have truly politicized them, who have put up a slate with a political
> agenda. To say that they were slanted liberal before is not exactly
> untrue,
> but ignores the fact that fandom tends to slant liberal (as is likely when
> dealing with people who look toward the future rather than the past), and
> ignores, among other things, the nomination of Correia's own book just
> last
> year.

This is the third year of Sad Puppies log-rolling, so Correia's nomination
last year is not an overlooked counter-example.

However, there are numerous earlier counter-examples that *were*
overlooked that GRRM nigh-exhaustively covered 2-3 weeks ago:

http://grrm.livejournal.com/418285.html



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Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
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