aka The Puppy Sculptors of Coral D
Apart from “An Account of Juliette Wade’s Withdrawal from Sad Puppies 3” hosted on this blog, the highlights of the day come from Tom Knighton, Lisa J. Goldstein, Spacefaring Kitten, George R.R. Martin, John C. Wright, severian, Vox Day, M.C. Hana, Daddy Warpig, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Paul Cornell and Abi Sutherland. (Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Laura Resnick, plus yours truly.)
Tom Knighton
“Why they joke about ‘conspiracies’” – May 3
Go to any CHORF or SJB science fiction site, and someone is likely to joke about conspiracies. They think it’s funny, using the term to paint Sad Puppies as right-wing nut jobs prattling on endlessly about the New World Order and chem trails. “No,” they say, “there’s no ‘conspiracy involving Hugo nominations.”
Of course, they’re full of it too.
Lisa J. Goldstein on theinferior4
“An Attempt to Come to Terms with the Hugo Ballot” – May 1
I have lots of time — except for proofreading my novel, and coming up with something for an anthology I promised to be in, and, you know, actually writing something … okay, I’m not sure why this seemed like a good idea, but I thought I’d read the ballot and comment on it. A few ground rules, then. First, I don’t like military sf, and that’s what a lot of the ballot seems to consist of. This isn’t even an ideological stance — I just can’t get into it, the same way I can’t get into vampire novels and mysteries where the cat solves the murder. I will try to get past this and make my reviews as objective as I can, though I can’t promise anything. Second, I reserve the right to quit reading a nominee at any time. I’m not going to read an entire novel if the first few chapters leave me cold. Oh, and spoilers. I’m going to start with short stories, because they’re, well, short, and with the last story on the ballot and then work my way up. So the first story is “Turncoat,” by Steve Rzasa…..
…What I’m doing here is reading the Sad Puppies’ slate and commenting on it. This is something the Puppies said no SJW (Short Juggling Wombat?) would do, that instead we would vote a blanket No Award, and I would think the Puppies themselves would welcome my efforts. Commenting on the media is beyond the scope of this project, and not something I’d want to do anyway
Spacefaring Kitten on Spacefaring, Extradimensional Happy Kittens
“’Turncoat’ by Steve Rzasa” – May 3
I’ve begun my Hugo reading with the short story and graphic story categories. Most of the short stories are available online, so maybe I’ll start with them.
I plan to keep track of what I’ve read and what I think about the stuff I’ve read here on this blog. Feel free to comment, whether you agree or disagree.
The first one I read was “Turncoat” by Steve Rzasa.
George R.R. Martin on Not A Blog
“Reading for Hugos” – May 3
Just finished THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM, by Cixin Liu, originally written in Chinese and translated by Ken Liu. This was the novel that just missed in the original round of nominations, only to secure a place on the ballot when Marko Kloos withdrew. In a half-century of Hugo Awards, there have been very few non-English originals ever nominated, and certainly never one from China, so THREE-BODY is a breakthrough book in that respect, and a sign that “worldcon” is (very slowly) becoming more global.
This is a very unusual book, a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology, where kings and emperors from both western and Chinese history mingle in a dreamlike game world, while cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies, murders, and alien invasions in the real world.
It’s a worthy nominee.
https://twitter.com/Paul_Cornell/status/594850392934064128
https://twitter.com/Paul_Cornell/status/594851239768260609
https://twitter.com/Paul_Cornell/status/594855367387021312
John C. Wright
“Reviewer Scorn for One Bright Star, Plural of Helen, etc.” – May 3
A reviewer is disappointed in my efforts:
http://secritcrush.livejournal.com/tag/pathetic%20puppies
In Wright’s hands Queequeeg remains firmly a noble savage with no depth of characterization at all. One person of color in the story and that’s what Wright goes for. That’s how the Pathetic puppies increase diversity.
Diversity, eh?
Discuss.
ADDENDUM: a reader brings to my attention links to a review site whose disappointment is markedly less. He asked whether both sites read the material, or only one?
http://superversivesf.com/2015/04/18/review-of-plural-of-helen-of-troy/
http://superversivesf.com/2015/04/17/one-bright-star-a-review/
severian on Rotten Chestnuts
“Perestroika and Puppies” – April 30
Admit one lie, you see, and you’ve tacitly admitted to all the other lies. And when your whole system is built on lies….
And that’s the best case scenario, mind you. If the Hugo Award TrueFans (or whatever the acronym is) are smart, they’ll go Gorbachev — grudgingly hold their noses while loudly proclaiming that they’re voting for the “”””””best”””””” of a very, very sorry lot…. and then the Puppies go away, because there’s no more shit to be stirred — all the drama queen antics cease. That means there will forever be a year with a “wrong” Hugo, and the Hugo will never again be the Unsullied Pure SJW Award for Excellence in SJW Propaganda, but so what? There’s always the Nebulas or the Galactic Vagina Trophy or whatever. (If there’s one thing liberals are great at, it’s singing their own praises; they’ll come up with something).
But I’m betting they won’t, because again, Gorbachev’s the best case scenario. Ol’ Mikhail himself would do it again in a heartbeat — he’s still alive and kicking, not buried two feet under the Siberian permafrost — but many of his kommissars got what was coming to them…. and, of course, the shining beacon of world socialism guttered and went out. SJWs have no identity of their own; if they’re not shrieking about something, they wink out of existence like quarks. So they’ll burn it down, No Award everything, because at least that way they can play the martyr role for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever….
Vox Day on Vox Popoli
“Patience is a strategic virtue” – May 3
Now let’s look at how fighting strategically applies to the Hugo 2015 situation. We know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the SJWs are going to vote No Award on most of the Puppy-recommended works. Some will claim to have read them all, some will proudly proclaim that they have read none, others will pretend to genuinely believe that there is not a single award-worthy work in the lot, and a few particularly foolish ones will even convince themselves they believe as much. That’s fine, we all know what their opinions are worth as the list of past winners are well-documented. The only relevant point is that they are going to do it.
So why shouldn’t we join them? Why not pour on the gasoline as they run around shrieking and lighting matches? After all, getting things nominated that the other side would No Award, then turning around and joining them to ensure no awards were given out was my original idea, which I set aside in favor of SP3 and Brad Torgersen’s ultimately futile attempt to save the Hugos from the SJWs. The reason to abandon this original objective now that it is firmly in our grasp is that the situation has developed in ways that I did not fully anticipate, thereby indicating a strategic adjustment. Why settle for burning Munich when Berlin may be within reach, especially if the munchkins are promising to burn Munich for us as we advance? Jeff Duntemann’s summary to which Mike Glyer directed our attention yesterday is informative in this regard….
The best possible outcome is not to see them nuke themselves, as amusing as that would be, but to see them try to nuke themselves and fail, thereby demonstrating that they don’t even possess the nukes they think they have. And even if Option 4 turns out to have been beyond our reach this year, its failure is still within the range of our victory conditions. This is what it means to successfully execute a Xanatos Gambit. If we fail, we win. If we succeed, we win even bigger. Why settle for victory when we can vanquish? Now that the science fiction SJWs have publicly declared No Award, the best possible outcome for us is for them to try to burn down the awards and fail. And that is why we should not help them do it. I very much understand the temptation to cry havoc, run amok, and gleefully set fires, but keep this in mind: while strategic arson is good, strategic occupation is glorious.
Translation: stow the flamethrowers. For now.
M. C. Hana on Blue night. Black iron. Golden rope.
“Intergalactic Medicine Show: free fiction” – May 3
I’ve witnessed some extraordinary discussions over the past month, as the Hugo Awards controversy continues in the science-fiction and fantasy community. Eventually, I’ll provide links (cribbed and cited from a couple of diligent AW sources) to the best explanations of what happened and why.
Part of the fallout? Free stories listed online by authors, editors, and publishers who have refused Sad Puppy/Rabid Puppy nominations this year.
The latest is a collection of science-fiction and fantasy from Orson Scott Card’s ‘Intergalactic Medicine Show’, offered by its editor Edmund R. Schubert. Schubert recently gave a passionate defense of his magazine, pointing out that it does not share all of Card’s politics, and seeks diversity from all authors and stories.
Disclosure: I am one of the authors who recently avoided IGMS because of its perceived association. Schubert’s essay convinced me to take another look. I’m several stories in, and I’m pleasantly surprised. It takes me back to my teen years, and my mom’s subscription to the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
https://twitter.com/Daddy_Warpig/status/594958659815247872
@avram @PNH and I could both compile fabulous fake resumes out of all the things the #SadPuppies have said about us.
— tnielsenhayden (@tnielsenhayden) May 3, 2015
Abi Sutherland in a comment on Making Light – May 3
Day is right, of course. We have not left him alone. You see, although we call the periodic threads we start “Open Threads”, that’s just to get the correct initials: OT.
OT really stands for OPERATION THEODORE, and the OTs are the coordinating place for the subtle campaign of intimidation we have spent years implementing.
To decrypt the plans, you must acquire the cryptographic key based on the distributions of the letters “V, X, D, and Y”* in the first thirty-three comments of each thread. Although those comments may appear to be posted by various members of the community and the general public, they are in point of fact all posted by Patrick, Teresa, and me‡, using our talents** as skilled textual mimics to produce the thin and unconvincing effect of conversation††.
Once you have the key, you too can join the carefully coordinated assault on the forces arrayed against us, carried out by means of no one from our community bothering to join his coterie even as a mole, a complete failure to discuss him unless he’s done something particularly dickish, and a total lack of interest in him until he damages an institution we care about‡‡.
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I hated Turncoat – compared to how Iain Banks, Neal Asher, Peter Hamilton write sentient battleships and describe space warfare it was unbearable, then there were lines like ‘the men who…’ versus ‘the people who’ really jarred against me – it felt like a story written about AIs written by somebody who has ignored any progress in fiction, computing and so forth in 20 years. The opening battle scene at the start of The Reality Dysfunction is better than Turncoat in every way, and that was written in 1996.
I didn’t mind Totaled, but give the avowed ‘claims’ of the puppies it struck me as the complete opposite of what they wanted to get onto the ballot – not to mention, the effective suicide at the end seems to have been ignored, unless we are to believe the last bit is the protagonist in heaven… but then there’s a theological issue I’d like to hear Wright discuss.
Wright’s mess… nothing, couldn’t finish it, badly written, heavy handed sub-par CS Lewis riff. Antonelli’s stuff was ok, but tedious, so very tedious.
I’m back to feeling completely comfortable in voting No Award to the whole category frankly.
Shorter Beale: if I hadn’t fucked up in the first place, it would have been on the ballot.
And we’re supposed to be happy about that are we?
Yes, Wright was another of those I couldn’t even finish. Was nothing in it for me. On A Spiritual Plain was ok (apart from the author not knowing what the Golden Mean was), but nothing to vote on for a Hugo.
A Single Samurai left.
“A ‘best of fandom’ award or a ‘best of Science Fiction’ award? Clearly there is a difference, and as you indicate, Peace, it can’t be both.”
You’re inventing a dilemma where one does not exist. Every award has a voting pool.
If you want to think of the Hugos as a “best of fandom” award that’s your prerogative. I think most of us view them as a best of SF/F award because of the prestige they have earned over the decades. The winners over the past decade have been just as qualified to be there as earlier ones.
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Puppies.
Having just read “Parliament”, I’m puzzled.
I generally like atmospheric stories, but the atmosphere in this story became overwhelming – mostly because I think it was trying to ape aesop’s fables in tone and atmosphere, and that got old quickly.
The story as a whole bored me and left me disinterested and cold; I didn’t see any actual characters or any real *conflict*, which I guess makes sense because it’s a fable, which wouldn’t usually have such.
That said, I’m not sure if I would have liked the story better if it had had a different theme – if it had been a fable set outside of the Christian worldview rather than within it. I’m not sufficiently capable of disambiguating my reactions to be able to tell, unfortunately.
As it stands, I’m likely to rate it below ‘No Award’ because I just didn’t like it. But I can see where different people would disagree – (a) about how moving a Christian fable like this is, and (b) about whether a ‘fable’ is a ‘short story’ in the sense that the category encompasses.
Daveon @ 11:46 am-
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
As to the protagonist of Totaled allegedly being an effective suicide:
That is not how I would characterize it. She knew she was done. Randy’s characterization that she had a couple of weeks left reeked of desperation and denial (which in my opinion was good writing). What little quality of life she still had as a brain in a jar was over. She asked to be taken off the equivalent of life support. That’s not what I would characterize as an “effective suicide” unless everyone who elects to simply pull the plug while on artificial life support with no chance of recovery, while in pain and losing lucidity is an “effective suicide.”
And the last few paragraphs made me tear up a bit.
Given the stated religious beliefs of some people who have been taking part in this, even having a shelf life of a few weeks isn’t a reason to take a short cut… which does make me wonder if it had been read to the end, rather than picking up somebody who checked boxes for other reasons.
I actually thought Mira Grant did a better job in Feed of making me care about an otherwise utterly 1 dimensional protagonist.
Do not, do *not* get me started on the freaking “Golden Mean.”
Hehe, Wrights novel reminds me of this cartoon:
http://satwcomic.com/art/the-easy-way.jpg
Hampus- That’s funny on two different levels. I’m sending it to my 50% Swedish uncle.
Danny Sichel: Helix really strikes my fancy. Must use that one.
@Steve Moss:
“That’s not what I would characterize as an “effective suicide” unless everyone who elects to simply pull the plug while on artificial life support with no chance of recovery, while in pain and losing lucidity is an “effective suicide.””
Oddly enough, Sad Puppy darling and six-time-nominee John C. Wright appears to completely contradict your definition. Here is his Christian compassion for deathly ill Sir Terry Pratchett, who had Early Onset Alzheimers and eloquently spoke for voluntary euthanasia:
“The admirable writer has lent his considerable publicity and charm and all the goodwill all his years of hard work to advance the cause of murder and suicide. Through documentary and public speaking, he leads his considerable mass of loving and loyal fans to regard as normal the horror of asking doctors to slay their patients, and to regard as abnormal the respect for human life Western civilization once nourished.
… It is for the sake of comfort, to avoid the pain and humiliation of an incurable disease, or the expense, that the sick are cajoled to destroy the divine gift of life within them, and physicians to contravene their oaths.
… And the genial writer talked a man into suicide, and opened the gate of hell which opens when a man abandons all hope, and talked an audience into approving of the deed…”
“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 his life aside from entertain their idle afternoons. Only I did not stand, being too sick at heart. I did nothing, I said nothing. Was this Christian humility on my part, or merely the cowardice of the silence good men which allows evil men to triumph?”
I agree with Daveon. You don’t get credit for being such a horrible person that someone would rather turn down a Hugo than be associated with you. The fact that we got a book that he deems superior because of it doesn’t hold any water, considering that without his slate it would’ve been on the ballot already.
John C. Wright has a talent for saying absolutely monstrous things. Spouting the phrase “I did not strike the old man who uttered them across the mouth” about Terry Pratchett, and doing so WITH REGRET, is fantastically offensive.
If Wright could be convinced to write a novel with a person of his attitude as the villain, instead of the hero, it could be quite a read.
@alexvdl & @snowcrash : what a bizarre reinvention of history. “Flipped out”? “Attacked”?
If you weren’t so keen on making shit up you’d link the “offending article”. Sadly though it shows none of what you said is true. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/08/qpeople-who-like-this-sort-of-thing-q-being-a-review-of-mark-lawrences-prince-of-thorns
AG – not at all. his situation would be entirely analogous to Harlan Ellisons: he still writes works worthy of Hugo consideration but will not have anything whatsoever to do with the online bullshit.
Peace Is My Middle Name @ 12:42 pm-
And John C. Wright’s alleged personal opinions matter to me why, exactly? I think I’m here to read the work and cast one vote, express one opinion, on where the nominees’ writing rank between 1-6 alternative choices.
@Hampus: “I haven’t read “The Door Into Summer” in 20 years, so not sure how well it has survived.”
I still thoroughly enjoy it. If I weren’t so woefully behind with my TBR stack, I might be tempted to reread it Real Soon Now. Heck, I might anyway.
@AG: “allow me to recommend this free book”
Please, not that dreck. I checked out part of the online text; the logical fallacies (e.g. “class grants privilege, thus race doesn’t matter”) were downright painful.
aeou – its been the subject of review contention for years and still going strong. I was just marking my side of the argument.
RCade, Peace is my:
Exactly. Fans are Slans, readers are not. Readers can become fans (go to a con, read a fanzine, pick up a guitar and filk) as they are certainly starting with a solid foundation (as opposed to those who only watch TV shows, or films or play games with SF themes – most are astonished that the origins of their stories and shows are found in the literature, but few fail to appreciate the superiority of the written word over these secondary iterations).
Fans created the SF convention, the SF club, various SF awards and a movable culture second to none and preceded only by Sherlock Holmes fandom (and judaism, lol). If fans choose to designate something as special or noteworthy, the only people who can make justifiable criticism are the fans themselves. (Which of course is very easy to become – though given this whole puppy, appeal to the masses and appeal to commercial success over all else from certain camps makes it far less likely that they’ll do so.)
Readers can become fans (go to a con, read a fanzine, pick up a guitar and filk).
Perhaps fandom should stop using a word that is so easily confused with its normal meaning. If the Hugo Awards had simply made it clear from the beginning that, despite its rules allowing anyone (fan or non-fan) to vote, and that the award did not, in fact, represent “science fiction’s most prestigious award” but instead “fandom’s (special definition fan) most prestigious award” I really don’t think you would have had this problem of the unwanted readers of science fiction from sullying your affair.
You should be reprimanding whoever it was in fandom who left the door wide open for the unwanted people and telling them that they have always been welcome. I think that’s who Theresa Neilsen Hayden was trying to attack when she belatedly announced that the Hugos did not, in fact belong to everyone, nor represent all of SF: “The set of all people who read SF can start their own award.”
‘I really don’t think you would have had this problem of the unwanted readers of science fiction from sullying your affair.’
I think you mean the problem of Theodore Beale blundering around in an effort to dominate, destroy, or devalue them.
Bryn,
Considering I didn’t ever read that Tor article in the first place, I’m not sure that your demanding it be posted is going to help your case any. The conversation that turned me off of Lawrence, was one that happened on Twitter. Feel free to continue to wail and gnash your teeth as you choose. I’m sure that’ll get you far. 🙂
The Water That Falls On You From Puppies.
“Perhaps fandom should stop using a word that is so easily confused with its normal meaning.”
You are 75 years too late for that complaint.
Anyone who hangs out at File770 knows what the word “fandom” means in relation to our discussions here. You are not confused, so your complaint about confusion reeks of insincerity.
Worldcon couldn’t be more welcoming to new fans who want to vote in the Hugos. All it takes is $40 to support the next con. So all your talk about anyone being made “unwelcome” is absurd.
They Shoot Puppies, Don’t They?
@Steve Moss:
You were arguing that the end of “Totalled” was not an effective suicide “unless everyone who elects to simply pull the plug while on artificial life support with no chance of recovery, while in pain and losing lucidity is “an effective suicide.””
I was pointing out that by the stated standards of one of the central figures in the Puppies it very definitely was.
Daveone had pointed out that this seemed to run contrary to the Puppies’ philosophy of storytelling, which is what you had responded to.
The point might be only that the suicide matter seems an odd one given the Puppies’ general level of vehemence about their beliefs.
I brought it up as a peculiarity and an insight into Mr. Wright’s concept of charity.
You don’t have to care about it. Voting your personal opinions is exactly the right way to vote and I fully support your right to do so, no buts or qualifiers.
“If You Were a Puppy, My Love”
‘The Water That Falls On You From Puppies.’
The Puppies That Fall On You From Nowhere.
Where were you last Puppyday?
Peace Is My Middle Name @ 2:01 pm-
You have accurately encapsulated my opinion as to Daveon’s theory as what constitutes an “effective suicide” in relation to the short story “Totaled”.
John C. Wright’s opinions one way or the other have no bearing on the subject, no more than do those of Pope Francis or the ghost of RAH.
We agree that a person should read a nominated story and rank them 1-6.
The Puppy Who Came in from the Cold
I comment on Duntemann’s post here: http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-his-aptly-titled-blog-post-rant-sad.html
Puppy, be not proud
Today We Choose Puppies
‘You should be reprimanding whoever it was in fandom who left the door wide open for the unwanted people and telling them that they have always been welcome.’
There’s never been unwanted fans, they’ve always been welcome to become members of Worldcon.
‘I think that’s who Theresa Neilsen Hayden was trying to attack when she belatedly announced that the Hugos did not, in fact belong to everyone, nor represent all of SF: “The set of all people who read SF can start their own award.”‘
The Hugos do not belong to everyone. They belong to the WSFS, and it’s voted on by the members of such, from supporting on up. Anyone who doesn’t like the results of those votes, care to be a part of the Worldcon community, or has a problem with the process can absolutely start their own award. If they want to contribute to the process or support the community and vote on the awards anyone is welcome to join.
It clearly says all this on the About page for the Hugo awards.
Yep. Everyone is welcome in SFF fandom, and if you don’t believe that, come and speak to some of the liberal, conservative, libertarian, anarchist, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Pagan, Evangelist, straight, LGBT, S&M, etc. etc. etc. fans at any convention.
Each person is welcome to come in and vote his or her interests.
Marching in in a lockstep monocultural mob and trying to take over is frowned upon, as people may have noticed.
But each individual voice is welcomed as a unique contributor to the wealth and variety and interest of SFF fandom.
xdpaul – you seem to have real issues with people not agreeing with you on how words are used.
Have Puppy, Will Travel
Puppy of Mars
Space Puppy
Sixth Puppy
Puppy in the Sky
The Puppy Masters
Starship Puppies
The Puppy Is A Harsh Mistress
To Sail Beyond the Puppy
Time Enough for Puppies
With apologies for possible duplicates:
Mansfield Puppy Park
It’s My Puppy and I’ll Cry If I Want To
The Unbearable Lightness of Puppies
The Puppy Astronaut of Mars
A Few Good Puppies
All Puppies Go to Heaven
HMS Puppyfore
The Puppy of the Opera
Westside Puppy
The Puppies of Oz
Never Say Puppy Again
Puppyraker
Her Majesty’s Secret Puppy
If the Hugos aren’t SF’s most prestigious award, name the award in the field that is more prestigious.
NB: it’s another thing entirely to claim that the Hugos ought not to be as prestigious as they are.
Combining the Western and SF genres, there’s of course Gene Puppy in The Phantom Puppy (or should that be The Puppy Empire?)
Much Ado About Puppies
xdpaul: “If the Hugo Awards had simply made it clear from the beginning that, despite its rules allowing anyone (fan or non-fan) to vote, and that the award did not, in fact, represent ‘science fiction’s most prestigious award’ but instead ‘fandom’s (special definition fan) most prestigious award’ “
You’re palming a card there. You’re claiming as a given that the Hugos could only be “science fiction’s most prestigious award” if every single person who reads SFF nominates and votes on the award.
The fact is that the Hugos are “science fiction’s most prestigious award” — not because every single person who reads SFF nominates and votes on the award, but because the people who have nominated and voted on the award for decades have been people who read a great deal of SFF, and who have taken very seriously the responsibility to nominate and vote in good faith, rather than trying to stack the deck for the subpar works of their buddies, as the Puppies have done.
No one is trying to keep anyone out of the Hugos. Anyone is welcome to pay a full or supporting membership and nominate and vote — within the rules of the WSFS, who created and maintains the award.
If you want an awards program that every single person in the world can vote on for free, great! Create one.
But stop complaining because the WSFS doesn’t change its awards program to suit your personal desires.
Puppiesman of Gor
I feel that it’s best to attempt to offend everyone equally with the Puppy related titles.
Ancillary Puppies
Puppyshirts (or, Old Puppy’s War)
Among Puppies
Blackpuppy/All Puppy (or, To Say Nothing of the Puppy)
The Puppy & the Puppy
The Windup Puppy
The Graveyard Puppy
The Yiddish Policemen’s Puppies
Puppies End
P is for Puppy?
I prefer The Yiddish Puppies’ Union. I don’t know why.
Oh, we’re going for random titles now, rather than staying in genre?
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Puppy
The Puppies of Madison County
Puppy and Commander
The Puppiad
The Puppy Whisperer
Puppyopolis
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Puppy
A Brief History of Puppies
Tales of the Thousand Puppies and One Puppy
Ali Baba and the Forty Puppies
The Man With The Golden Puppy
The Seven Puppies of Sindbad
Pup and Puppibility
Today We Choose Puppies
A Puppy of Solace
If On A Winter’s Night A Puppy…
“The Number of the Puppy…”
The Girl With The Puppy Tattoo
The Puppy Farm
…please someone stop me….