(1) THE PERFECT MATCH. Fathom Events is bringing Starship Troopers back to theaters – but only so the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 can give the movie everything it deserves.
The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000® are bringing The Best of RiffTrax Live back to select cinemas nationwide. On Thursday, January 14, join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for a re-broadcast of their hilarious take on Starship Troopers.
Originally riffed in August 2013, this fan favorite features the guys hurling their wisecracking humor at what has become the king of modern campy sci-fi epics.
(2) THREE BODY. President Barack Obama spent his holiday vacation in Hawaii reading these four books reports Newsweek.
His reading list includes: The Whites by Richard Price, Purity by Jonathan Franzen, The Wright Brothers by David Mccullough, and The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
(3) DEMENTO AND CRAZY-EX. Joe Blevins at Splitsider fills you in on everything from Dr. Demento to YouTube in “2015: The Year Comedy Music Broke”.
And then there are the vloggers and other YouTube stars, the ones who make their livelihoods from the site. It’s an under-reported phenomenon, but original comedic music has played a huge role in the success of many of them. Popular channels like Epic Rap Battles of History, Axis of Awesome, and Schmoyoho, all of which regularly rack up millions of views per video, are essentially delivery systems for new comedy music, even if few would think to lump them in with the acts getting airtime on The Dr. Demento Show. They’re all playing the same basic sport, though, just in different arenas. The comedy duo Smosh, long one of YouTube’s most-subscribed channels, mostly concern themselves with sketches, but they do enough songs to warrant inclusion here. Even vlogger Jenna Marbles occasionally does a musical number (usually about her doted-upon dogs) as part of her weekly video series. If there is a way to make money doing funny music in 2015, it is to partner with YouTube, nurture a subscriber base, and never really define yourself as a comedy or worse yet “novelty” music artist. Meanwhile, none of these people are getting much validation from traditional media, including pop radio. Whether that constitutes a problem is debatable.
(4) CHAOTIC NEUTRAL. Brandon Kempner has declared Chaos Horizon ineligible for the 2016 Hugos.
After careful thought, I’m declaring that Chaos Horizon (and myself) will not accept a Hugo nomination in 2016. Because Chaos Horizon reports so extensively on the numbers related to the Hugo process, I feel it would be a conflict of interest to be part of that process in any way.
Since I do reporting and analytical work here at Chaos Horizon, it’s important from me to maintain some journalistic distance from the awards. I couldn’t do that if I were nominated. This is consistent with my past practice; I haven’t voted in the Hugos since I began Chaos Horizon. Simply put, the scorekeeper can’t play the game.
(5) TANGENTIAL HISTORY. The “Tangent Online 2015 Recommended Reading List” says it contains 417 works: 355 short stories, 46 novelettes, and 16 novellas.
Its long, error-filled endorsement of Sad Puppies 4 begins with this generous rewriting of history —
Sad Puppies was the name given to a small group of fans four years ago who had become disgruntled after seeing many of the same names on the final Hugo ballot, year after year. It was spearheaded that first year by SF author Larry Correia, who decided to put forth a list of authors and works he believed were being overlooked. He recused himself from being recommended or being nominated.
The Sad Puppies name was given these campaigns by their creator, Larry Correia, who started them to stir support for his own Hugo prospects. He was successful enough to be nominated three times; it was only the third he declined. Nor did he recuse himself from Sad Puppies 3, but supported the SP3 slate with his novel on it, only at the end suprising his fans by taking himself off the ballot.
(6) SOMETIMES THEY DO GET WEARY. The respected Lois Tilton begins “2015 Reviews in Review” at Locus Online with a sigh:
Lovers of SFF can only deplore the late year’s outbreak of divisiveness and animosity, with the hostile parties displaying a willingness to destroy the genre in order to deny it to the other. Calls for unity go unheard while the partisans make plans to continue the hostilities in the upcoming year. The only bright spot is that ordinary readers appear to have largely ignored the entire thing.
(6) FLICK ANALYSIS. Ethan Mills shares his picks “2015 Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Mediocre” at Examined Worlds.
I’ve been trying to decide between Fury Road and The Force Awakens as my favorite movie of the year. Both movies have ultra-competent female protagonists, although Fury Road could certainly have done better on the racial diversity front. While Fury Road gives us pulse-quickening action and a fully realized post-apocalyptic world, Star Wars gives us all the fun of a real Star Wars movie.
Click to see who wins.
(7) READY-TO-WEAR TBR PILE. And if you have a week free, Fantasy Faction will tell you about the Top 50 fantasy novels of 2015.
It’s getting harder and harder to be a well-read and up-to-date reviewer in Fantasy these days. It’s also getting incredibly difficult to order the best of the year lists. I know that complaining that too many good books are being released probably isn’t an argument I will get much support for, but wow oh wow were there too many damned good books published in 2015, right? RIGHT!?
It’s not just the quality of the books, but the diversity of the Fantasy genre worth applauding too. Take Empire Ascendant, The Grace of Kings, The Vagrant and Uprooted – these aren’t books being based on proven and familiar formulas
(8) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY GIRL
- Born December 31, 1945 – Connie Willis
https://twitter.com/EdMcKayinFay/status/682559367087013888
(9) MURDER BY DEATH. “The Medieval Revenant: Restless, Dead, and Out for Revenge” by Matt Staggs at Suvudu. Interesting paragraph – perhaps the literati around here can tell whether it’s accurate.
Unlike us, medieval men and women didn’t make much of a distinction between various kinds of the living dead. There were revenants who fed on blood, and vampires who fed on anything but blood. Sometimes the restless dead took physical form, and other times they were immaterial spirits, like ghosts. (The zombies stayed down in Haiti, and those poor souls didn’t eat anyone.) Because of these reasons, classifying a story as one about a revenant rather than a ghost, vampire, or other restless dead thing can be difficult. That said, we can draw upon these tales for some ideas of what revenants did and why they rose from the dead in the first place.
(10) MISSING YOU. Journey Planet #27 takes as its theme “Fan History – To Absent Friends.” Download it here.
We look at the impact of those who have come before us, and what they meant to the evolution of Fandom, and of fans. Wonderful stories of legends like Bruce Pelz, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Jerry Jacks, Mikey Jelenski, Fred Duarte, Gary Louie, Robert Sacks, Poul Andersen, Mick O’Connor, Dave Stewart, James White, Ted Johnstone, Joe Mayhew, LeeH, Jay Haldeman, George Flynn, and many many more, help us understand the legacies that led us to where fandom is today.
It was lovely to learn more about so many people that we had heard of but sadly never met, and to learn about people new to us that, unfortunately, we will never have an opportunity to meet. Our experience as fans is enriched by knowledge, and we hope that you will all have a similar experience reading the issue. Produced by guest editors Helen Montgomery & Warren Buff, plus editors Chris Garcia & James Bacon.
(11) BOOKLESS. Is making these announcements a new trend? Greg Van Eekhout is another author explaining why he won’t have a new book out in 2016.
First of all, I won’t have a new novel out. That’s mostly because I didn’t complete one in time to have a novel out in 2016. From the time a novel is sold, a publisher usually needs at least nine months and often more than a year to get it ready for release. And by “ready” I mean not just editing and printing, but also positioning it with a marketing campaign and finding an advantageous slot for it in the release schedule. So, for me to have a book out in 2016, I would have had to finish writing it sometime in late 2014 or early 2015, so an editor could edit it, so I could revise it, so an art director and book designer and cover artist could make it pretty, and so on. Unfortunately, taking care of two elderly parents was more than a full-time job that didn’t leave much physical or emotional energy for new writing.
(12) EXPANSE RETURNING. Lizard Brain shares Syfy’s press release announcing that The Expanse has been renewed for a second season.
Currently airing on Syfy Tuesdays at 10PM ET/PT, THE EXPANSE has garnered strong multiplatform viewership since its December 14 debut, with 4.5 million viewers sampling the first episode on Syfy.com, On Demand and digital outlets prior to the series’ linear premiere, and an average of 1.6 million P2+ linear viewers (L3) in its first three episodes.
(13) MISTER LISTER. Black Gate’s John ONeill amusingly comments —
Fortunately, the tireless John DeNardo works much harder than me. He doesn’t go to Christmas parties, or watch movies. Ever. Or sleep, apparently. No, he read every single one of those Best SF & Fantasy of the Year lists. The ones that matter anyway…
— before guiding us to John DeNardo’s compilation of “The Best of the Best of 2015’s Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books” at Kirkus Reviews. There, De Nardo explains:
o I used 8 different sources to arrive at the aggregate, all of them specifically geared toward science-fiction and fantasy books: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and course Kirkus Reviews.
o I only included books that garnered three or more mentions. That yielded a list of seven books, which seems like a good size. That said, I also include below a list of “Honorable Mentions” that appeared on two lists.
(14) SNOPES CLEARS HARLAN. Snopes says a famous Harlan Ellison story never happened/
Claim: Writer Harlan Ellison was rebuffed after making a crude remark to a tall blonde woman at a party.
Status: False.
In Snopes’ example, Isaac Asimov spins out an entire anecdote, but the gist is —
…Harlan approached one of these giraffelike women, fixed her with his glittering eye, and said, “What would you say to a little fuck?” And she looked down at him and said, “I would say, ‘Hello, little fuck.'”
Snopes says this is nothing more than a riff off one of the jokes in Gershon Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke first published by Grove Press in 1968.
I remember hearing the joke whispered between fans in the early 1970s. It must have been freshly purloined from Legman at the time.
(15) HALLOWEEN STAMPS. Naturally, horror news blog Dread Central is more interested in the 2016 Jack O’Lantern stamps that will be issued for Halloween. I skipped over those to avoid spoiling the symmetry of the space and Star Trek theme in yesterday’s post. But they are lovely!
(16) TREK ACTORS CASH IN. “Star Trek Actor Salaries Just Beamed Up With Big Raises” at Celebrity Net Worth says Paramount will pay big to hang onto the cast of its franchise films.
…In order for the latest Star Trek film series to “live long and prosper,” Paramount needed to keep Pine and Quinto on board as Spock and Kirk…
Pine only made $600 thousand for 2009’s Star Trek, which grossed over $385 million. For 2013’s Star Trek: Into Darkness, Captain Kirk made $1.5 million of the $467 million gross. Before a new deal was struck, he was scheduled to make $3 million for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. Thanks to a lucrative new deal, Pine will now make $6 million for the third Star Trek film, which is double what he was supposed to make, and will be 10 times what he made for the first film in the series!
The new deal features big raises and much better performance bonuses for the cast. Paramount only wanted to give the ship mates nominal raises, but ended up giving in for the better of the franchise. Thanks to last minute negotiations, the production house ended up adding somewhere between $10 and $15 million to the movie’s budget to pay the stars of the show. As part of the new deal, Pine and Quinto have been granted an option and will now be a part of the 4th film in the J.J. Abrams directed series.
(17) SKY TRASH. Almost 20,000 pieces of space debris are currently orbiting the Earth. This visualisation, created by Dr Stuart Grey, lecturer at University College London and part of the Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory, shows how the amount of space debris increased from 1957 to 2015, using data on the precise location of each piece of junk. (Via Chaos Manor.)
(18) KEEP THE FAITH. James H. Burns writes:
For the end of the year, or really the start of the new, and in the spirit of the season, one of the greatest minutes ever in the history of filmed science fiction… Courtesy of J. Michael Straczynski, and the good folks at, and on, Babylon 5….
[Thanks to Andrew Porter, John King Tarpinian, James H. Burns, Brian Z., and Sean Wallace for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Will R.]
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Last first fifth for 2015!
First second fifth for 2016, then! 😀
A very happy new year (which is about to arrive here in the Pacific time zone) to everybody! I can tell from the noise that my neighbors are going above and beyond with the unofficial fireworks, but it’s too cold to go outside and see.
Happy New Fifth Year from California!
Fifth for 2015!
The second fifth of 2015!
My very best wishes for the coming year to all of the Filers who have contributed their time and thoughtful comments to making this such a wonderful community, one which I (and obviously many others) value enough to keep coming back.
For those of you dealing with the loss of loved ones, human or furry, I send you hugs and the hope that your wonderful memories will ease your grief.
For those of you dealing with illness and / or facing medical procedures, I send my best hopes for alleviation of pain and successful outcomes.
For those of you struggling with depression or loneliness, I hope you’ll remember that there are people here who care about you, enjoy your company, and are very, very glad, that you’re alive.
And to all of you, I give my profound thanks for your jokes, your astute commentary, your compassion, your fun and laughter, your book recommendations, and for making the world a brighter place.
May 2016 bring you much joy, love, and laughter. 🙂
Can Connie Willis really be 70 years old? Next thing you’ll be telling us Robert Silverberg is almost 81.
A mere two hours left in the first day of 2016 here. Happy New Year!
ETA: And apparently, the First Fifth of 2016 according to the timestamp.
Happy Third Impact Day everyone! I hope you enjoy being turned into orange goo!
(3) DEMENTO AND CRAZY-EX
Hey, thanks for this, although I wish this survey of humorous online music had mentioned the prolific and very funny sci-fi parodist Tom Smith.
6) SOMETIMES THEY DO GET WEARY
Lois Tilton:
Yay!
Rose, thank you for the Dorkly article. There can never be enough fun poked at Evangelion.
(9) MURDER BY DEATH
It’s because every locality had its own stories about the dead.
Vampires, by the way, were merely one obscure subgroup of the evil dead “others” who stole lives and crops and were fought in dreams by the Benandante and similar crop-protecting dream-warriors in the regions around Macedonia, northeast Italy, etc.
See Carlo Ginzberg’s interesting academic study “The Night Battles” for some fun times about real* vampire-hunting werewolves in Renaissance Italy.
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*”Real” in the sense that they were real people who followed these beliefs and came to grief from the Inquisition for them.
Well, there’s my first book of the year finished. Okay, not so much a Real Book as a novella, but it still counts. I finally got around to Unlocked, the setup/background for Scalzi’s Lock In.
(At least) 99 more to go for 2016…
Happy New Year to one and all!
The Kindle edition The Watchmaker on Filigree Street is up for £1.39 on Amazon UK, for anyone interested.
Rev.Bob
Due to time differences I have completed my first novel of 2016: Anthony Ryan’s Bloodsong, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, I’ll be stopping there as the reviews for the remainder of the trilogy are dreadful, and I have no desire to spoil something which I have enjoyed!
@Rose Embolism
Not as bad as when we get both Fifth Impacts of course…
Fun article, reminded me of watching Eva v.e.r.y s.l.o.w.l.y as episodes came out months apart on VHS in the UK.
Reaching your arbitrary future date is a perennial problem for SF it seems, e.g. 1984.
(17) SKY TRASH
It looks almost like we’ve created our own ring out there. Does anyone know what’s up with that highly visible narrow ring which shows up in the last few years?
(14) I doubt the joke told about Harlan was stolen from Legman; he and Asimov (and Klass (who claimed to have seen the incident when Harlan came to the college Klass taught at), and possibly many other people) were probably all drawing from the oral tradition of rude jokes, which would have been around long before anybody was willing to put them in print.
I recall Harlan at a Readercon (~1999) saying that Klass got the story from a known source; I thought he’d cited something older than 1968, but couldn’t say for sure.
(18) KEEP THE FAITH
A delightful moment. “Babylon 5” was my favorite science fiction show of the 1990s.
RE: 18. One of the greatest moments in the entire series, and it managed to be in the um, less than perfect first season.
My review of the reviews of reviews is that I enjoyed Lois Tilton’s round up – she’s a reviewer that I often don’t agree with but find interesting. DeNardo had some interesting comments on the books he was listing, in contrast to Trusdale in Tangent, who used up all his commentary on that very long plug for SP4, rather than the year’s fiction. If he’s simply endorsing it because it’s a non-partisan recommendation list, then it’s odd that he would fail to mention the several other recommendation sites that have been set up this year as well.
17 Sky Trash
Stross had an interesting article a few months ago about Kessler Syndrome, which is an idea that there may be a tipping point where the amount of debris in orbit starts destroying satellites and creating more debris at a rate higher than the natural mechanisms which reduce debris, leading to an escalating problem and eventually the loss of all satellites in lower earth orbit. Apparently there’s already one satellite a year destroyed by debris strike…
Wildside Press is giving away Megapacks today. You can get two $0.99 ebooks with coupon code K02474VTI. At least a few of them have stories from 1940: Pulp Fiction Megapack, Milton A. Rothman Megapack, and I can’t recall which one, but Jameson’s “Train for Flushing” is in a Megapack.
Criswell predicts!
In 2016
– Artisanal barley water will become all the rage with hipsters.
– The Breakfast Club will be remade with mutant teens with super powers
– File 770 will become File 7734
– Benedict Cumberbatch will receive rave reviews for his portrayal of Helen Keller in a revival of The Miracle Worker on Broadway
– A freak earthquake will turn San Francisco into a smug, foggy, high tech island paradise
– Plan 66 from Outer Space will succeed. This time for sure!
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
(14) I read a good part of the G. Legman book, and the exchange that is credited to Ellison is standard self referential input. I still own the book. I haven’t finished it because there are kinds of jokes I don’t wish to know or leave in my mind. Legman’s approach is Freudian, with all the fixations attached.
one hundred books, all nice and warm.
*read* *read* *read*, a review is born.
type-type type-type.
@Iphinome:
We are no longer cousins.
My first wish for 2016 is that Tasha gets successful relief for that gallstone sooner rather than later.
Off to a mini File 770 meetup – me, Lydy Nickerson, TNH, who knows who else – at the home of my occasional songwriting partner and secret master of THE SJW sf cabal. Perhaps there will be pics!
Also, I CALL ALL-TIME FIFTH!
Thank you, Peace, that has just made my day. (Having acquired all three audiobooks over Christmas, though I’m only about a third of the way through Justice so far, and Adjoa Andoh is a simply superb narrator.)
HNY to all filers everywhere.
I think we should have a New Years Quiz, and here is my contribution:
Which was the body part, and why was its owner less than thrilled about it?
Stevie,
A fun idea, but I haven’t a clue!
Mark
Fortunately at least one person frequenting File770 will recognise it; she wrote it!
Yeah what is with Tangent? They’ve published a number of pro-Puppy pieces, including at least one by Kate Paulk.
Nonetheless their recommendation list seems fairly reasonable. Interesting thing is, that though I was making a serious effort to read all highly recommended stories last year, I’ve only read 8 of their 44 three-star short stories; but I mostly agree that those 8 deserve their kudos. I obviously wasn’t drawing from a wide enough pool of recommendations (which is forgivable because there was too much to read as it was). Tangent likes stories from certain sources that get less notice ifrom the reviewers I read — Galaxy’s Edge, OSC’s Galactic Medicine Show, Writers of the Future… There really is a cultural divide there.
Happy New Year to all!
Vasha wrote:
(emphasis mine)
You may have answered your own question about what is up with Tangent’s pro-Puppy stance.
As Mike notes before me, Larry Correia founded Sad Puppies explicitly to get himself a Hugo, and only tried to duck the results after it became obvious how Sad Puppies 3 was turning out. He certainly did not recuse himself from being nominated or recommended, unless we count his “I never wanted one anyway” post after SP2 flopped. However if I remember right, he only got nominated twice, rather than three times. Warbound and the Monster Hunter book. Am I overlooking something?
@Cat: I looked it up to make sure and you’re correct: Warbound, which he accepted, and Monster Hunter Nemesis, which he turned down.
My first minireview of the New Year goes to … Astra, by Naomi Foyle. Interesting post-apocalyptic sci-fi told from the point of view of a child (and later a teenager) growing up. After a global environmental crisis, the new country of Is-Land is founded based on principles of respect for nature and harmony among its citizens. A pretty chilling look at how a government founded on benevolent ideas can become dystopic and tyrannical. Could be seen as a critique of certain tendencies on the left from a left point of view, and also pretty easy to see it as commentary on certain situations in the modern Middle East. Had some pacing problems, but in general kept me engaged. I liked it.
Happy New Year!
I am the One True Fifth.
Currently listening to The Invisible Library, and reading Interim Errantry.
Currently not paying attention to the Puppies.
Happy New Year, everyone! Love the new header, Mike!
I get a day off from work today, but not fan work– time to pull together my list of anime from the second half of the year that Hugo voters ought to check out…
(14) Snopes: “I remember hearing the joke whispered between fans in the early 1970s.”
In the early 1970s, west coast fans must have been much more polite than east coast fans. I heard this anecdote repeated many times at cons in the east, and probably repeated it myself a few times, but I don’t recall it ever being passed on in whispers.
My first mini-review of the year: The Wicked + The Divine, a comic book written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by divers hands, published by Image. Volume 2, Fandemonium, collecting issues 6-11, is eligible for best graphic story and will be going on my nominations list. For those who’ve missed discussion, this is a modern-day fantasy. Every 90 years, a bunch of various gods reincarnate in young (teens and twenties) people, and have two years of active life, then die. It’s that time again. This is rich, deep, satisfying storytelling, with a fascinating cast and a plot that is really truly unafraid to shake things up in unexpected ways. (The end of issue #11…whoo boy.) The conceit of gods as celebrities is one that works in all kinds of ways, and I’m really loving it.
My second mini-review of the year: The Autumnlands, a comic book by our own Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey, also published by Image. Sorry I was tardy getting to this, Kurt, but it did make great New Year’s Eve reading. 🙂 This is set in a post-apocalyptic future, with sophisticated magic and a zillion species of intelligent, hominid animals, who’ve long since lost any account of humanity. Magic’s failing and a bunch of magicians reach into the past to bring forward the primal champion responsible for inaugurating the age of magic. What they get is a human soldier of (it looks like) the moderately new future. Catastrophes and complications ensue. Kurt is in great form, his ability to quickly delineate really interesting characters in peak form, and a great conceit for chapter openers as pages from storybooks and other chronicles of current events through future eyes. Dewey is an utter marvel of an artist. His art here is like a fusion of Tasha Tudor and P. Craig Russell, or something. Gotta go catch up with the rest of this series later today; volume 1, Tooth and Claw, is also going on my nominations list.
Someday God will
make me a real boylet me write an actually mini review. But that day is not this day.Is anyone else a little worried that we’re going from 2015 which ended with a blessed 5 to 2016 which doesn’t even end with a number?
@Jack: 6 is 3 x 2. 3 + 2 = 5. Fünfwissenschaft is here to help.
It’s not inconceivable that Harlan would tell the “little fuck” joke on himself–I have with my own eyes heard him tell a similar self-deprecating story that I know to be a standard. (The last half of the punch-line is “and that’s a wee-wee.”*) And I got to know Phil Klass well enough to realize that he would sometimes retrofit a classic joke or story onto real people. I suspect that some of the Randall Garrett stories I used to hear were similarly apocryphal-in-fact if not in spirit. This practice seems not unlike the misattribution of quotations to Mark Twain or Einstein in internet memes.
* It has a close relative that a friend told to me as something that happened to her but very likely didn’t actually. That punch-line is “It looks like a penis, only smaller.”
@Vasha
I read ten of their 44. If I’d read all the sources in 2015 that I’m planning to read in 2016, then I would have read 17 of their 44. Not liked them, necessarily–just read them at all. Of the ten I did read, there’s only one I’d actually recommend.
Much better with novelettes though. I read seven out of nine and recommended three.
For novellas, I read five of the six and recommended two.
In general, my problem with Tangent has been that they like all stories. They’re great to read after you’ve finished a story, but they’re not useful as a guide to what to read. It’s a challenge to prune the lists down to something short enough for a busy person to get through.
To @Mark’s point, I’m also disappointed he didn’t mention the Hugo Wikia, since it is also trying to get people to make suggestions. I’m not surprised he didn’t mention Rocket Stack Rank, since what we’re doing is a little different.
Reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Started last night but took a break to read Joyce’s The Dead for the first time. I am really liking the Jemisin. It grabbed me in a way the somewhat similar Goblin Emperor didn’t.
One of my mathy friends is terribly pleased that 2016 is 25 x 32 X 71 (if I got that right).
@Vasha: “Yeah what is with Tangent? They’ve published a number of pro-Puppy pieces, including at least one by Kate Paulk.”
Remember this petition from 2014, in the wake of the SFWA Bulletin flap from the previous summer? Yeah, I’m totally not surprised to see Truesdale/TO taking a strong pro-Puppy stance. One might even speculate that Sad Puppies and that noxious petition both stem from the same wellspring. If nothing else, there’s certainly a good deal of overlap in the themes involved.
Blast and drat! My machine froze up and lost multiple editing attempts.
Superscript did not work in the above post.
It is supposed to be 2^5 x 3^2 x 7^1