A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)
So the big Facebook news for the last day or so has been that Jon Del Arroz, an up-and-coming SF writer, has been banned from attending Worldcon. Why? Because he planned to wear a body camera. OK, I’m being vague. Jon Del Arroz is a conservative Hispanic science fiction writer. You can see his Amazon …
Continue reading “Worldcon is dead. Bury it, and the Hugos, and be done with it.”
Unfortunately, not literally, like with a sledgehammer. Anyway, I’m no longer on FarceBork, so I’ll share his post about WorldCon — and what a con it is — and their cowardly decision to withdraw their GoH invitation to Baen’s Toni Weisskopf, here. An Open Letter To The Old Time Fans at WorldCon Do go and …
I’ve written before about my attitude regarding WorldCon and the Hugos — short synopsis, overrun by progs and no longer worth the dime. SJWs being SJWs, it’s only gotten worse. A panelist’s bio on the WorldCon site, apparently lifted from another website (and we’ll not go into the ethics and general laziness of that; the …
So, this year I joined WorldCon for the first time (as a supporting member) and got to vote on the Hugos. I’ve been a science fiction aficionado most of my life. 50 years, or close to it; way back in the 1960’s, before I could even really understand what I was reading, I got hooked …