Thread: What on EARTH are Baen playing at?
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Old 06-27-2010, 12:11 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I buy every edition of Baen's "Webscription" release, and have done every since they started. I don't always enjoy every book, but at least I know that they're going to be SF or Fantasy, which I'm likely to enjoy.

So I look at this month's webscription release, and what do I see:

Taxpayers' Tea Party
A Manual for Reclaiming Our Country

What the heck? This appears to be some right-wing political clap-trap. I suppose it could loosely be categorised as "Fantasy", but it's really not what I want to see in my beloved Webscription release. I do hope that Baen aren't going to start publishing political manifestos like this on a regular basis .

Very disappointing.
It's not so bad. I think a nonfiction book on politics is less objectionable than when the politics of the author is pointlessly written into a book. Take Live free or die, for example. That book has a number of scenes that could be removed without affecting the story.
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