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John C. Wright
Personal blog · scifiwright.comculturewritingpolitics
John C. Wright's personal blog at scifiwright.com covers culture, writing and politics. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link John C. Wright's blog for essays on science fiction conventions, the Hugo Awards and memorable characters of essential SF authors. Comments mostly discuss the Sad Puppies controversy and his views on Terry Pratchett.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Amusingly (or enragingly) one of the effects of the Sad Puppy voting slate in 2015 was that it pushed William Patterson's magisterial and definitive biography of Robert A. Heinlein -- who the Puppies mostly adored -- off the shortlist for Best Related Word (a Hugo category usually occupied by scholarly works of SF history and criticism) in favour of utter garbage like "Wisdom From My Internet" by Michael Z. Williams…
Comment linking /2015/02/sad-puppies-3-announces-its-2015-hugo-sample-slate/
on “Understanding the world science fiction convention”Submitted Twitter Shadowbans Briefing and FAQ as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis is an essay by John C. Wright who has written, among other things, regret that he didn't physically assault Terry Pratchett: "I sat and listened to pure evil being uttered in charming accents accentuated by droll witticism, and I did not stand up, and I did not strike the old man who uttered them across the mouth: and when he departed, everyone stood and gave him an ovation, even though he had done nothing in h…
Comment linking /2011/10/the-watchtowers-of-atlantis-tremble/
on “Memorable SF Characters of the Essential Authors”Submitted Memorable SF Characters of the Essential Authors as a story · 19 points
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