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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jeff Weimer

      1/ This is like the 10th time Scalzi has sub-blogged me. (It happened a ton back in the http://tjic.com  days). He had the courage to link early on, but he's gotten more passive aggressive as his T levels have cropped, I guess. Skimming, bc verbose and boring, but >>https://twitter.com/Jeff_Weimer/status/1295721925570891777 …

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      Jeff Weimer @Jeff_Weimer
      @MorlockP Scalzi sub-blogged you. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/oh-christ-not-the-science-fiction-canon-again/ …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

      2/ His final line " No canon, just a field forever in conversation with itself, choosing its conversational partners from its past rather than having them assigned from a list." points to the problem: Yes, that's the ideal - the field SHOULD be having that conversation. However

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

      3/ What my twitter thread a week or so back showed is that huge numbers of the current practitioners in the field are NOT having a conversation with the genre, because they are IGNORANT of the genre. We had 20 something "authors" chiming in saying that SF needs to >>>

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

      4/ opened up to black, female, and gay voices FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, and these people were so breathtakingly ignorant - as if I (and everyone else) wasn't reading SF written by blacks, women, and gays BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. People somehow opining about the state of SF&F >>>

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          5/ and calling ME ignorant and telling me to read up on the history of the field, despite the fact that actually I DO, as a hobby. Some rando told me I was ignorant of the works of Joe Haldeman, which is odd, because I don't think they'd read this scholarly monograph on him.pic.twitter.com/MwC5qKEo4Y

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          6/ I was told that I was ignorant of female SF authors, which is odd, because I not only read books they write, but books they write about the fact and history of writing books.pic.twitter.com/sztr3S3N9b

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          7/ It was implied that gay SF writers were a new thing, as were black SF writers. ...which is a level of ignorance that's breathtaking. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO READS REFERENCE BOOKS FOR FUN?!?! THIS IS NOT NAM!pic.twitter.com/D9IamAg4fi

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          8/ So anyway, Scalzi's idea that the field of SF&F is "in conversation" with itself is a nice idea, and is in fact the goal, but the current wave of authors with bios at http://tor.com  that describe their sexuality, race, and gender transition but not their influences >

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          9/ Is proof that he's incorrect. In the year 2020, SF&F is NOT in conversation with itself; there has been a hard break, and the current generation of ... well, whatever it is that Tor publishes these days ... is NOT in conversation with the old field, but only with >

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          10/ 2020 SJW woke politics, movies, and videogames. It's sad, but aside from the indy scene, SF&F is a dead field. The entryists killed it and caper around wearing its skin, congratulating themselves on their bravery and skills.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

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          11/ Indeed. It is possible (and desirable!) to depart from what has come before. But one needs to know it and understand it before one can alter it an improve it. Haldeman criticized and improved upon Heinlein because he READ and UNDERSTOOD Heinlein. https://twitter.com/HumungusEternal/status/1295723376355532802 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted CArefugee ❌

          12/https://twitter.com/CA_refugee/status/1295722773898244097 …

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          CArefugee ❌ @CA_refugee
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Dude who wrote that is totally a manlet. Bet
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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          13/ maybepic.twitter.com/ZtIczmRLkL

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted eigenrobot

          14/ yeah, I mentioned Delany in my earlier thread that Scalzi is maybe subtweetinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1295726500298145794 …

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          eigenrobot @eigenrobot
          Replying to @MorlockP
          dont forget pro-NAMBLA sci-fi authors get out ahead of the woke curve pic.twitter.com/zA2ojWujPK
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs

          15/ misspelled his name, tho, bc Morlockhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290798071597731840 …

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          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
          120/ You're saying that you're ignorant of Martin Delaney who wrote SF in the 1850s, Pauline Hopkins, who wrote SF in1900s, Octavio Butler, Samuel Delaney in 1960s, and dozens of other African American SF authors? That's pathetic; you should be embarassed https://twitter.com/RadFemme74/status/1290792376043220995?s=19 …
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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Marco

          16/ I would like to attack Scalzi posts more often for you dear friends, but he is so tedious and boring I apologize for my lack of discipline :(https://twitter.com/marcoJcosta/status/1295727156610375682 …

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          Marco @marcoJcosta
          Replying to @MorlockP
          oh, that evisceration went down well with my coffee thanks Morlock keep it up
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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Thread Reader App

          17/ someone just unrolled the original Vast Thread here it is, if you carehttps://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1295727854215462917 …

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          Thread Reader App @threadreaderapp
          Replying to @sithkhan
          Hi, the unroll you asked for: @MorlockP: 1/ Most of the SF being published today is not just garbage, it is a very narrow type of garbage, written by… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1289983463567720449.html … Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖
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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Fiannawolf, Questing for the Superversive.

          18/ good commenthttps://twitter.com/Fiannawolf2/status/1295734019938816000 …

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          Fiannawolf, Questing for the Superversive. @Fiannawolf2
          My 2 cents about "women not in sff angle." 2020 hasn't been the first in anything. Woke-land wants people to forget the actual history of pulp and novels. https://fiannawolf.blogspot.com/search/label/Politics … Wont read Delany either. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1295722478329835523 … pic.twitter.com/BiZ96kqNdw
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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Demiurgent 🥃 🖤

          19/https://twitter.com/tr0g/status/1295738671589666825 …

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          Demiurgent 🥃 🖤 @tr0g
          Replying to @LibertyFarmNH @MorlockP
          Sorta. If you just want to read what you like and go about your day, that's fine. If you're going to make grand statements about the current diversity of the field is unprecedented, it behooves you to have some understanding of the field.
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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Rich Sezov

          20/https://twitter.com/sez11a/status/1295765698518618112 …

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          Rich Sezov @sez11a
          Replying to @MorlockP
          The worldview on display is telling: it's the difference between measuring works against a predefined standard (truth, beauty, goodness), vs. against whatever "contemporaries" are doing (i.e, one's own flights of fancy). They don't understand why their works are bad.
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