58/ Anyone who thinks that Heinlein's craft doesn't stand up should read Farah Mendlesohn 's masterful The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (2019) and educate themselves. https://www.amazon.com/Pleasant-Profession-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1783526785 …
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69/ Agreed; am in the middle of her most recent novel.https://twitter.com/tr0g/status/1290757006597459973 …
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70/ I'm not making that claim, necessarily, but it's certainly not IMPOSSIBLE to make that claim.https://twitter.com/doctorflopsy/status/1290756614035771392 …
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71/ why, exactly, Sir Kevin the White Knight, should I re-read that? Are you upset that I had the temerity to civilly disagree with a female interlocutor, and use a book written by a female author as my cite?https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/1290768713520750603 …
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72/ we've got a bluecheck tagging in I guess I'm a reactionary for saying that SF authors wrote, on average BETTER sf about gender issues, race, trans, etc. in the 1970s (when editors selected on merit) than in the 2020s (when they don't)https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290770912975912960 …
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73/ > modern sci-fi is far better not just better, but FAR better LOL as if hey, have you read Hugo award winning novel "Redshirts" ? https://twitter.com/McfuckyouSweety/status/1290771837174140930 …
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74/ I didn't say "no", I said "all but". Which, if you're familiar with the English language, you know means "nearly". Jeff Vandermeer is a great author. John Scalzi ... also, yes, writes.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290772169899888643 …
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75/ you still haven't answered the question, Sir Kevin. Why, out of nowhere, did you jump in and tell me that I need to read about people who don't respect women's rights? Something I tweeted, one presumes? Please like to what I said.https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/1290772492366295041 …
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76/ Well argued, I appreciate the examples and footnotes.https://twitter.com/WenSchw/status/1290772823355428864 …
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77/ perhaps the worst mistake of the progressives in the 1970s was deinstitutionalization --->https://twitter.com/nico_nicole97/status/1290772918104985600 …
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78/ Already answered up-thread in tweet #61 Thanks for tagging in at the top of the thread and asking questions that were already answered hours ago ; marks you as a serious interlocutorhttps://twitter.com/WenSchw/status/1290773138070896640 …
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79/ And I, in turn, find Vandermeer's politics and hubris despicable as well. But (a) I don't care about his opinion of my politics; (b) I do care that he's good at the craft, which is why I read him.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290773330119860224 …
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80/ LOL, seriously,
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81/ Most of the authors I read and like the most (Mieveille, Macleod, Barnes, Banks, etc) are left of center.
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82/ I see you put the words "real sf fans don't care about politics" in quotation marks. Odd, as I didn't say those words. What I said was that I don't care what Jeff V thinks of my politics.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290774255374938113 …
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83/ Please work on your reading comprehension. I never said that I don't read anything recent, and in fact listed a half dozen books published in the last year or so that I've read.https://twitter.com/WenSchw/status/1290774513307668481 …
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84/ I didn't claim to be "one true arbiter of science fiction", I claimed to have an opinion. Also, the authors I laud have not stated any such thing; you've created that out of whole cloth. Please stop saying dumb things; it's tedious.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290774729222234113 …
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85/ > I love John Scalzi I'm embarrassed for you that you said this out loud, where people can hear it. This ties into my thread earlier, about how critics can educate earnest but naive readers in what craft looks like. https://twitter.com/McfuckyouSweety/status/1290774885149663232 …
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86/ I do, in fact, understand that quotation marks have multiple uses. But in this case you were ascribing the words to me. What other use of quotation marks did you intend? Scare quotes?https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1290775132626092038 …
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87/ I never said that there are no straight white male SF authors; I said that they are not getting published by Tor, etc., and are not receiving awards. Scroll up thread for footnotes documenting the correctness of this claim. https://twitter.com/McJohnson922/status/1290775411341717504 …
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88/ I'm not sensitive, quite the opposite. I'm RTing you as part of a pedagogic project where I show my followers what modern SF fans are like.
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89/ > I'm not reading your thread and yet you are, and you're responding to it. Odd. > do something constructive like what? write a book? start a company? run a farm? https://twitter.com/McJohnson922/status/1290775848652378113 …
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90/ No, I'm referring to your claim that the right controls the government as an example of deinstitutionalization: a crazy person has been let out and handed a twitter accounthttps://twitter.com/nico_nicole97/status/1290775963534491648 …
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91/ "You say that I am" https://twitter.com/McJohnson922/status/1290776280711884800 …
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92/ I'm not whining. I'm holding my interlocutors up for contempt in front of an audience of my friends. Thank you for playing your role in this little 1-act play. https://twitter.com/McJohnson922/status/1290777415430500354 …
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93/ No, it's not that you like things that I don't. There are many things that are good that are not to my taste (e.g. The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies). What I'm saying is not that you're BAD but that your taste is IGNORANT and UNTUTORED. https://twitter.com/McfuckyouSweety/status/1290777782147059714 …
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94/ Delta V was great; read it on suggestion of Neal Stephenson (I asked him for recommendations at a recent signing).https://twitter.com/micahodor/status/1290778083583234050 …
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95/ I'm not "whining"; I'm *attacking*. I'm not asking anyone to feel bad for ME; I'm asking people to feel bad for YOU (plural) because you have bad taste and argue poorly. https://twitter.com/Gearoid_Dubh/status/1290778435711897604 …
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97/ No, this thread is not about anti-diversity. This thread is about how modern SF authors do diversity so POORLY.https://twitter.com/rise804/status/1290778905671073797 …
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98/ I thought about what it would feel like to write a book as bad as Scalzi's typical output while I was writing my novels. ...and that's why I did six drafts, to make sure that that wouldn't happen.https://twitter.com/ZombieDevaney/status/1290779081647312897 …
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