He wrote some horrible stuff, by 2015 standards. Renounced a lot of it later in life. Little evidence he was worse than usual for the time.
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@jhertzli It's an amusing alt-history but I think there's a current that's been percolating through fandom since at least the 80s that... -
@jhertzli ...deliberately blackens Lovecraft's reputation. Yeah, he hated people, yeah he was a bigot, but Literally Hitler? Fuck me. -
@jhertzli In his later letters he openly regretted writing things like "On the Creation of Niggers".
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@St_Rev Some sort of new rule that if you do something related to Lovecraft, you have to point out he was RACIST very prominently. -
@St_Rev Noticed it first in Stross' novela Equoid; there's a clanging line about "Bolshevism & Jew-Fascist Negro Barbarism" in L's voice. -
@St_Rev By Sod's law I'll probably find out that Lovecraft used those very words, but they sound way off for him. -
@topynate Goes back at least to the "post-mortem interview" in Bruce Sterling's zine Cheap Truth. http://www.3x6.net/vhoorl/?p=1093 -
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@St_Rev I like his work, for the most part. Haven't really kept up with his Laundry stuff tho, not entirely my thing. -
@topynate by 'hack' here I mean politically. although I've disliked everything I've read by him *except* the Laundry stuff. -
@St_Rev Oh, right. Yeah, well he's past the political event horizon for me now, not really relevant to me if he's Green or SNP or whatever. - 2 more replies
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@St_Rev IIRC, Lovecraft found most of humanity repugnant.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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