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Robert Heinlein on the Breendoggle
Robert Heinlein on the Breendoggle
From William H. Patterson’s book Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, p. 263.
At just that moment, in fact, science-fiction fandom was tearing itself apart over the preemptive cancellation of the membership of a suspected pedophile by PacifiCon, the most recent world science-fiction convention, in September 1964. This conflict might have…
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Breendoggle Documentation Now On a Wiki
Breendoggle Documentation Now On a Wiki
Trigger Warning: child rape
Just when I thought I was done with this….
One thing that’s come out of shining light into dark corners is that the original “Breendoggle” from 1963 has now been posted online. If it was online before, Google couldn’t find it, only documented references to it.
Bill Donaho wrote the original piece in 1963.
What this gives is contemporary accounts, some second- and…
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The Importance of Books and the MZB Timeline
The Importance of Books and the MZB Timeline
Responding to this comment on the MeFi thread about the timeline.
More correct timeline:
Tor.com publishes their tribute piece on MZB’s birthday. (Now removed, see #3)
I write my response piece and post a link to it on the Tor.com piece’s comments.
When looking at my own comments, I notice a lot of hits coming from this File 770 piece that says Tor.com took down the MZB article.
I’m not…
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Tor.com Pulls MZB Tribute
Tor.com Pulls MZB Tribute
Thanks to Mike Glyer at File 770 for the heads up.
Before the post was yanked it drew a blistering response by Deirdre Saoirse Moen[...].
Go, me!
My post was here, in case you missed it.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley Gave Us New Perspectives, All Right
Marion Zimmer Bradley Gave Us New Perspectives, All Right cc @cloudy_vision
Trigger warning: child rape.
Leah Schnelbach wrote a piece on Tor.com for Marion Zimmer Bradley’s birthday. I’m not going to link to it.
In this case, I feel that what’s most important about Marion Zimmer Bradley isn’t that she wrote a bunch of stuff.
I feel that what’s important to remember about MZB is what she enabled that was unconscionable.
Let’s pull some tidbits of MZB in her own words out…
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Deviant Art's Dark Patterns: Ripping Off Indie Artists
Deviant Art’s Dark Patterns: Ripping Off Indie Artists
Rismo made this rather awesome piece and posted it on Deviant Art. Hot Topic started selling the t-shirt.
No one paid Rismo.
Did Hot Topic rip off Rismo?
No, Deviant Art did through a dark pattern.
Here’s DA’s Submission Policy.
Check out d:
the right to sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and…
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