Posted on 05/24/2022 10:54:16 AM PDT by texas booster
Hmm, “comfort elves”, are those like the “comfort women” that Japan enjoyed in WW2?
She was bitten by the poisonous beast she created.
Sympathy?
None whatsoever.
The Calvinist influence is very strong with Philip K. Dick.
He was totally fascinated with the issue of free will vs determinism—that led him into the paradoxes of time loops of various kinds.
I prefer his short stories to his novels—he throws out some wild ideas and leaves it to the reader to think about the implications.
Several of his short stories led to well known movies, of course—”Total Recall” and “Minority Report” are probably the most well known.
“Minority Report” is very deep stuff—that and the “Electric Ant” are the two PKD short stories I would recommend to anyone new to him.
Possible PKD was pulled into MK Ultra?
He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right disposition.
There are a lot of rumors about PKD’s possible relationship with government intelligence agencies—either as victim or agent/informant (or maybe both!).
I have yet to see anything persuasive or conclusive, though—maybe somebody will offer a death-bed confession on the topic...
Absolutely ridiculous that it’s come to this.
Seriously, I was half-expecting that the pro-LGBT writer had said something about trans-women (the reason they want to cancel J.K.Rowling). But using an older term, and then banning her for it? They’re becoming a joke.
I know people who had goals of becoming members of SFWA. And once they made it, they didn’t hang around.
Also, note that unlike the Hugo, which was voted on by the fans, the Nebulas are voted on by other writers (SFWA members).
Yes it is, but if you look at the personality types involved with the public face of SF, it's inevitable that it would come to this.
Or with the "public face" of anything nowadays, I guess.
Heinlein has a lot of good stuff, but he definitely went towards the alternative sexual theories towards the end. Even TMIAHM had that linear polygamy thing.
It’s a confusing thing for many when Theresa Heinz-Kerry and Elon Musk are African Americans, and Nelson Mandela is not. Even the newspapers famously botch that.
I have no sympathy for any level of woke pandering. A monkey pox upon them all.
As you say, Heinlein was definitely “out there” — a true free-thinker.
The well=known black writer is also openly gay and has written about it forever. He is also elderly.
I like Delaney’s work, especially his short stories. Not into fantasy, so Lackey is not someone with whom I’m familiar.
The social justice twits have politicized science fiction to the point of ridicule....of them.
Granted, that's a small sampling, and doesn't speak to the rank-and-file who make of the bulk of the membership.
Mob mentality, I guess.
Exactly...Eventually, when there’s no “enemies” remaining, the Left hunt each other...
Pretty soon being straight will be rebellion.
Lackey’s Valdemar books are generally pretty good reads, though some of them get quite preachy about woke crap. The Vanyel books were actually quite good despite the gay content - he is a self-sacrificing hero whose sexuality is pretty much incidental to the plot. There are several other gay / bi characters in the books, but it’s never in your face.
Funny that she is cancelled for something that the “president” got away with. Maybe her real sin is not making perversion central to the plots.
In The Forever War, the protagonist travels to the future (by going at light speed) and finds that homosexuality is the norm. Everyone feels uncomfortable around him because he's straight. Being straight is "queer."
Then a drunk lesbian comes on to him, and he realizes that she's really heterosexual, but living in the closet, pretending to be gay.
One thing that always did bother me about Heinlein was his apparent affinity for Islam.
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