Apropos nothing, I've always been confused/amused that David Gemmell, after whom the Gemmell Award is named, is held up by so many as the apex of manly, non-SJW bullshit sword-and-sorcery writing, because, like... did these guys ever actually READ Gemmell?
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There were multiple books about imperialism; about characters from contextually marginalised cultures struggling to preserve their identities and traditions in the face of oppression, who went inside the institutions of their enemies despite this to learn how to beat them.
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Gemmell wrote about rape, but in all the books I read, I don't recall him ever sexualising or sensationalising it. It was an ugly thing that happened, and he made a point of writing that ordinary men could be the culprits; that it could be a crime of opportunity -
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- and not just something obvious Evil Straw Villains did Because Evil. He never exonerated his rapists, but he showed how even men who were generally "good" in other contexts could commit it; & that even if they regretted it later, their victims still had a right to pain & anger.
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