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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His heroes aged, too, and felt the physical effects of age and disability. A once elite archer would feel his vision start to waver; wounded soldiers would struggle with injuries for the rest of their lives.
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It's been many years since I've read Gemmell, but so much of his work stuck with me precisely because of its empathy. And I wonder how those who hold him up as the antithesis of SJW snowflakes can have missed so much of the kindness in his writing.
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