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While Lackey’s twitter feed has never been terribly active, Dixon for his part is understandably furious and has been laying bare the mental and emotional strain the recent attacks have had on her in a long thread on Twitter:
1 posted on 05/24/2022 10:54:16 AM PDT by texas booster
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2 posted on 05/24/2022 10:56:27 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Screw em. Let the Left eat their own.


5 posted on 05/24/2022 11:00:37 AM PDT by The Louiswu (We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
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Safe For Work Airlines? So F***ing What, America?


6 posted on 05/24/2022 11:01:56 AM PDT by dangus (I had some sympathies for some of Russia's positions... until they started a G-d-damned war.)
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Good. Now get sick.


8 posted on 05/24/2022 11:02:56 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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The deep SF world has been kinked for a long time, like since the 50s.


9 posted on 05/24/2022 11:06:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I don’t know what the Grand Masters is about, or Nebulas. At first I thought ‘Golf?’. I spent the first few paragraphs trying to figure out; “What is this article about?”

Then, near the forth paragraph it was seen:
A well known white writer referred to a black writer as
‘colored’ instead of African American. Okay. got it.

I never agreed with that term. It was Jesse Jackson who popularized it. That scorned writer is 72 y/o. During her younger years, the term ‘Colored’ or Negro was very common.
Sad that she has to deal with such intolerant purists.


10 posted on 05/24/2022 11:09:12 AM PDT by lee martell
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Hugos and Nebulas have been irrelevant for years. SciFi has been ruined by wokeness and Fantasy. The two genres are distinct and lumping them together a huge mistake. I saw the rot set in when Asimov died and Gardner Dozois took over editing the Isaac Asimov SciFi monthly mag. He immediately filled it with navel gazing crap and I immediately cancelled. These people deserve each other.


14 posted on 05/24/2022 11:12:55 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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I’ve read and loved good SF since childhood. Thanks to the loathsome present day SFWA, I scan what pile of excrement they’re awarding as an “avoid at all cost list” lest I lose my ability to think.

After all, who wants a story of a self-involved aware piece of gay trans software that’s in love with a garbage can identifying as a septic tank, but can only consummate by pressing CTL-ALT-DEL & the suckme button simultaneously?


15 posted on 05/24/2022 11:16:46 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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A few years ago, Gregory Benford was nearly tossed out of Loscon (an L.A. sf convention) for saying, "If you write sf honey, gotta get the science right."

A woman objected to the term "honey."

You can read the report on File770

19 posted on 05/24/2022 11:22:24 AM PDT by Angelino97
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I take offense at labelling such monsters, “Jacobins.” I mean, the Jacobin French were murderous, insanely anti-God fanatics, but they were reasonable compared to these folks.


20 posted on 05/24/2022 11:23:02 AM PDT by dangus (I had some sympathies for some of Russia's positions... until they started a G-d-damned war.)
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Not a big fan of sci-if but anyone who is identified as a protege of Marion Zimmer Bradley is someone I couldn’t care less about. Her and Breen were filth.


24 posted on 05/24/2022 11:28:33 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.i)
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Heinlein is turning over in his grave.


25 posted on 05/24/2022 11:28:34 AM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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Yet they allow the writer of “Hogg” to be on the panel. Need to know how leftist a group is, check their hypocrisy first.


28 posted on 05/24/2022 11:32:53 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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“with it, she joins the ranks of the likes of Gene Wolf”

I think the author meant Gene WOLFE.


29 posted on 05/24/2022 11:33:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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She was bitten by the poisonous beast she created.

Sympathy?

None whatsoever.


42 posted on 05/24/2022 12:08:20 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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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).


46 posted on 05/24/2022 12:38:24 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
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I have no sympathy for any level of woke pandering. A monkey pox upon them all.


50 posted on 05/24/2022 1:45:46 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Pretty soon being straight will be rebellion.


55 posted on 05/24/2022 4:07:21 PM PDT by nicollo
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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.


56 posted on 05/24/2022 7:09:22 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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