1. Mailer pseudo-kerfuffle follows a pattern: there's a type of male writer who tends to be a star when alive & then goes into reputational decline soon after death: macho, two-fisted, sometimes substance abusing: Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Mailer, Harlan Ellison, Hitchens.
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this hasn't fully happened in crime fiction (yet) but it will
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Sounds like you think I should sell my James Ellroy futures.
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Hard to imagine calling Tiptree canonical but not Ellison, when what she's most known for in recent times is having her name removed from an award for murdering her husband.
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A fair amount of people outside SFF know I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, even if they aren't familiar with its author. How many SFF readers today can name anything by Tiptree?
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But not his real real contemporaries, people like Norman Spinrad, Greenberg, Disch, even Zelazney.
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i should read more delany
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Phew. I thought you were talking about Ralph Ellison there fora minute and was going to object.
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I would say that Tiptree is suffering the same fate as Ellison and the common denominator for their public decline is that they were primarily short story writers.
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