#Sadpuppies

OK, I watched about 3 minutes.
I am familiar with the 'Hugo's '.
I read science fiction in the
70's.

What happened to 'readers's tips' ?
Where is Kate?
Something is not right.(:-).
I hope this has nothing to do with the Riders or Ashley Madison.

I'm watching it. The every so tolerant Left side of the SF fan base has decided they are going to burn it all down.

Jesus, The Phantom isn't kidding. They're just not giving an award this year if one of the Puppy nominees would win?

In related news, Larry Correia's website has been down most of the night. Not sure if it's just high traffic or an attack.

Who were those discordant slobs, looked like something one would see on the wrong side of the iron curtain

A non sad puppy

http://www.petswoofs.com/puppy-attack

I stopped reading new SF years ago. I couldn't say why. It just stopped interesting me. Now I know why. Thanks, Puppies, for articulating it for me.

I've been following this tempest in a teapot for two years now. Its like the last ditch of Western Art. Being an SF fan pretty much since I could read, or maybe even a little before, these last ten years its been getting damn hard to find a decent book to read.

So many times you pick something up that looks promising, only to get a couple chapters in and bounce off the Soviet boilerplate of social justice, global warming and gender studies bullsh1t that permeates so much of everything we see, hear and read these days.

Tonight, we won a victory. Tonight the SJW Lefty Puppy Kicker crowd issued its verdict: They'd rather burn it down than let an outsider win.

Which is what we said they'd do. We said it, they did it.

Next year we rub their f-ing noses in it, by making them do it again.

There's going to be a "Sad Puppies 4"

http://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/08/22/so-tired-of-the-bull-excreta/#comments

Wow, pretty exciting, huh?

I've seen livelier funerals.

The old saying "Arguing with a Progressive is like playing chess with a pigeon, it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board and struts around believing that it won" comes to mind.

I'm not a rabid SF fan but I like it if it I written well, so I can't comment on what is current in the SF pulp world, left that when Dune ended. It seems to me SF has moved to the big screen and the comic book media (er excuse me, I mean the "graphic novel genre") Some of these have been fairly decent.

But you are correct, the few times I have taken a chance on a SF pulp it was just preachy fictional messaging for the latest proglodyde deparvity - like GLBT in space - or something like Cameron's pro-Neolithic anti-capitalist proto-commie messaging.

I moved to the SHTF/post-apocalypse fiction because the writing is better and the story lines chillingly real - and if the Progs continue to hog the political agenda we will all be in a SHTF scenario before the century is out, so it's like a manual for re-establishing civilization - AND the first characters/group to chewed up en mass by the unforgiving forces of nature and lawlessness in a SHTF event are the starry-eyed progs who cling to the flimsy trappings of their fragile engineered social veneer - when the SHTF they are extincted because nature culls the stupid or foolish, which clears the story line of any silly irrational premises.

I'm writing an action adventure series turned Sci-Fi where the antagonist is wrestling control of the world's natural resources in partnership with the United Nations. The first book has won a few awards but I'm expecting them to drop off when they see where the third book is headed. 😊

ND Richman.

You can tell a lot based on who published it. Baen is still my favorite http://www.baen.com/ and I haven't bought a prog-work from them yet. They include sample free novels from most of their long series so you can see if you like the full book and want to buy into the rest of the series.

Stay away from TOR books unless you have previous experience with an author.

I preferred Baen anyway. Go ahead, TOR, make me give THEM my money.

BAEN rules. TOR drools.
Pardon the vernacular, but I have to keep it VERY simple for any lefties who might be reading.

I remember reading sci fi as a kid in the 70's - seems like just about every author back then was hard core libertarian. That was just perception, I know, but what the heck happened?