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08-15-2020, 04:11 AM | #122 |
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I appreciate those responses. And I did not attempt to cherry pick or spoon feed things from Discon3, which is why I did not supply links. I wanted those who were interested to view the entirety, not just what I was referencing. You must realize that I am discussing this because I want to join WorldCon, but am troubled by endorsement of two organizations. And yes, I would equally object if there were endorsements for organizations I liked more, but were also far removed from the mission of WorldCon. However, if I were to comment further to illustrate my point, I would be ignoring the moderator reminder above. I am not advocating any particular organization or political view, rather I believe none of them should be part of the WorldCon planning and architecture, even tangentially. Let the authors we read, nominate, and select as winners provide that content if they wish.
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Well this is maybe somewhat off topic, but not more than other contributions.
Here is a link to the only Hugo-award winning book in the public domain. Quote:
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Reading this year's Hugo award winning novel right now. Really enjoying it. That's all that matters to me.
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We did have a discussion and I threw in some examples. For the most part, it almost seemed that if a person's gender/racial extraction/whatever is not being mentioned every second page as though it was the most important item about them, it was being trivialized. For instance, in the Honorverse stories, it is occasionally mentioned the House of Winton is dark skinned (I tend to wonder if given that the House of Winton's heir to the throne had to marry a commoner, that trait had not been made a genetic dominant). It's not a deep dark secret but neither is it more than a bit of background information. About as important as the Manticoran Navy uniform including berets. |
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Not idiots, but close-minded and uninformed would probably be a better word, as it's pretty obvious they have not read many (if any at all) Baen books. |
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But for me, if my library doesn't have something, I am not going to go out of my way to find it. They have thousands of books that I do want to read. If a publisher is not popular enough for them to support in a big way, this may be more than just popularity contests at this point. |
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I'll also say that at last check UNC had undergraduate and graduate-level classes on both science fiction and fantasy. There is an entire upper-level class on Tolkien which is next to the class on Milton in the catalog. |
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