March 1, 2005
New heights of prestige for the Nebula Award. Via World O'Crap, meet pundit Vox Day:The mental pollution of feminism extends well beyond the question of great thinkers. Women do not write hard science fiction today because so few can hack the physics, so they either write romance novels in space about strong, beautiful, independent and intelligent but lonely women who finally fall in love with rugged men who love them just as they are, or stick to fantasy where they can make things up without getting hammered by critics holding triple Ph.D.s in molecular engineering, astrophysics and Chaucer.More Vox Day, from a blog post headlined "The merits of anti-semitism":I'd never understood how the medieval kings found it so easy to get the common people to hate the Jews in their midst. But if those medieval Jewish leaders were anything like the idiots running the ADL, the ACLU and the Council of Jews, one can see where the idea of persecuting them would have held some appeal.(Some background on Vox Day.)Interestingly (in light of his remarks about Jews), Day is actually a "Christian libertarian" novelist named Theodore Beale.
Interestingly (in light of his remarks on female science fiction writers), what Day writes is science fiction.
Interestingly, the Science Fiction Writers of America, "not constrained by conventions and formulas...as open as the speculating human mind", has rewarded Mr. Beale by making him one of the seven jurors for this year's Nebula Award.
(More on the entertaining and prolific "Day"/Beale here and here.) (Props also to, uh, "Alameida".) [02:39 PM]