Tag Archives: fandom wank

The eight-hour Hugo host

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Cora

It’s certainly hard to be an SFF fan these days, since the genre can’t seem to go two weeks without a major uproar. This latest go-around started around noon on Saturday. I’d just had lunch and went onto the Internet … Continue reading →

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SFWA me, baby, one more time

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Cora

The SFWA drama (see previous posts here, here and here) is still going on, so here are the latest links, under the cut for those who don’t want to scroll through 1500 words on the SFWA controversy:

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More Maischberger and more SFWA

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Cora

The Maischberger talkshow featuring two raging homophobes debating whether the fact that GLBTQI people exist should be included in school curricula that I mentioned in yesterday’s post is now available online at the ARD Mediathek. Alas, it’s 75 minutes long, … Continue reading →

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SFWA Drama: The 2014 Edition

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Cora

You may remember the uproar surrounding sexist and otherwise problematic content in the SFWA Bulletin from last summer (exhaustively chronicled here). The SFWA promised to mend their ways and suspended the Bulletin until a new editor could be found (the … Continue reading →

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More on Internet debates, the tone argument and issues of power and privilege

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Cora

Cheryl Morgan has a great response to my post about internet debates and the tone argument. In her post, Cheryl points out two different ways in which such internet debates progress. The first one goes as follows: Privileged person posts … Continue reading →

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On Internet Debates and the Tone Argument

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Cora

You may remember the debate sparked last month by Paul S. Kemp’s explanation why he writes masculine stories (link round-up here and here). Well, now Paul S. Kemp has seen it fit to respond to the debate caused by his … Continue reading →

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The Latest on the current Genre Debates

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Cora

Two debates are currently raging across the online SFF sphere, namely the debate about the appropriateness of awards eligibility posts (see my previous posts here and here) as well as the debate about “masculine stories” initiated by Paul S. Kemp … Continue reading →

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Yet more Worldcon and Hugo Reactions

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Cora

The discussion about Paul Cook’s attempts to define SF for the rest of us seems to have died down, but it seems we’re still talking about Worldcon and the Hugos and if/how they should change. My last round-up of Hugo … Continue reading →

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Yet more responses to Paul Cook

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Cora

We’re still talking about Paul Cook’s ill thought out post about what does and does not constitute SF, so here are the latest responses: At Teleread, Chris Meadows cames to the conclusion that Paul Cook was deliberately trolling for outraged … Continue reading →

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Hugos and Worldcon Redux

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Cora

While some of us are debating about Paul Cook’s rather clueless attempt to define what is and isn’t SF (read the previous two posts for more), the discussion about the Hugos and the future of WorldCon is still happily chugging … Continue reading →

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