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This is a facebook post by Steve McEachern. Well said and while he’s talking about Canada it applies everywhere in this age.
What distinguishes this crowd is not serious disagreement but a confident unfamiliarity with how government, law, and public systems actually work. Complex issues such as healthcare, climate policy, trade, and infrastructure are condensed into slogans and conspiratorial fan fiction. Expertise is treated as corruption. Evidence is waved away as propaganda. The loudest person in the room is presumed to be the most informed, which is a convenient rule if you have opinions but no homework.
The Canadian imitation of American MAGA politics adds another layer of absurdity. Imported grievances are recited with the devotion of a script, then applied to a country whose institutions, conditions, and constraints are plainly different. Tyranny is alleged in a place where civil liberties remain robust, public healthcare exists, elections occur routinely, and daily life is not organised around fear of the state. The rhetoric is apocalyptic, the reality is mildly inconvenient, and the gap between the two is filled with algorithmic outrage.
This is where the movement reveals its true function. It is not a programme for governance. It is an identity factory. Outrage supplies meaning. Conspiracy supplies certainty. Persecution supplies moral status. The result is an epistemic shutdown in which institutions are not criticised in good faith but dismissed outright, and correction is treated as an attack. In that environment, obstruction becomes a substitute for competence, and cynicism is mistaken for insight.
Opposition in a democracy exists to scrutinise power, test policy, expose waste, and improve outcomes. When opposition collapses into automatic negation, governance degrades. Nothing is refined. Nothing is improved. Delay becomes the objective, and sabotage becomes a personality trait. That does not protect democratic institutions. It weakens them, while congratulating itself for doing so.
The constant invocation of “freedom” is also revealing. Freedom, in this context, usually means the right to be spared from consequences, complexity, or competing values. Regulation becomes tyranny. Collective responsibility becomes oppression. Compromise becomes betrayal. These claims flourish precisely because the surrounding society is stable enough to tolerate them. The benefits of that stability are consumed daily, even as the system providing them is denounced as a dystopia. It is a remarkable arrangement: demanding the privileges of a high-trust country while insisting one is a dissident hero in a failed state.
This is not the posture of people being crushed by authoritarianism. It is the posture of people who are bored, online, and persuaded that indignation is the same thing as civic virtue. Canada does not need less dissent. It needs better dissent: serious, informed, and capable of improving outcomes rather than merely producing noise.
If your politics begins and ends with “oppose everything, believe anything, and blame someone else”, you are not defending democracy. You are auditioning for a grievance community, and mistaking the applause for legitimacy.
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Her name was Judy-Lynn del Rey. And she became the most powerful editor in science fiction history.
Born in 1943 with achondroplastic dwarfism, Judy-Lynn grew up devouring science fiction in New York City's public libraries. At a time when the genre was dismissed as pulp fiction for teenage boys, she saw something else entirely: the future of storytelling.
She started at the bottom—an office assistant at Galaxy, the most prestigious science fiction magazine of the 1960s. Within four years, she was managing editor.
Then Ballantine Books came calling.
When she arrived at Ballantine in 1973, science fiction and fantasy were afterthoughts in publishing. Fantasy in particular was considered unsellable—unless you were Tolkien. Judy-Lynn thought that was nonsense.
Her first major move was audacious: she cut ties with one of Ballantine's bestselling authors, John Norman, whose "Gor" novels were popular but notoriously misogynistic. It was a risk. She didn't care.
Then came the gamble that changed everything.
In 1976, someone brought her an opportunity: the novelization rights to an upcoming space movie by a young director named George Lucas. Hollywood thought the film would bomb. Studio executives were skeptical. Most publishers passed.
Judy-Lynn said yes.
The Star Wars novelization sold 4.5 million copies before the movie even premiered.
She would later call herself the "Mama of Star Wars."
In 1977, she launched Del Rey Books—her own imprint, with her husband Lester editing fantasy while she oversaw everything else. Their first original novel was Terry Brooks's The Sword of Shannara. It became a phenomenon.
She didn't stop there.
Remember The Princess Bride? The original 1973 novel had flopped. It was headed for obscurity. Judy-Lynn rescued it, reissuing it in 1977 with a striking gate-fold cover and an aggressive marketing campaign. Without her intervention, there might never have been a movie.
She published the Star Trek Log series. She championed Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogy—convincing Ballantine to release all three books on the same day from a completely unknown author. Unprecedented.
She published Anne McCaffrey's The White Dragon—the first science fiction novel ever to hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
And she did all of this while competitors called her imprint "Death-Rey Books"—because she was utterly dominant.
Between 1977 and 1990, Del Rey Books had 65 titles reach bestseller lists. That was more than every other science fiction and fantasy publisher combined.
Arthur C. Clarke called her "the most brilliant editor I ever encountered."
Philip K. Dick went further: "The greatest editor since Maxwell Perkins"—the legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
But here's what burns: the science fiction community never nominated her for a Hugo Award while she was alive. Not once. The men who ran the industry praised her in private and overlooked her in public.
In October 1985, Judy-Lynn suffered a brain hemorrhage. She died four months later, at 42.
Only then did the Hugo committee vote to give her the Best Professional Editor award.
Her husband Lester refused to accept it.
He said Judy-Lynn would have objected—that it was given only because she had just died. That it came too late.
He was right.
Judy-Lynn del Rey transformed science fiction from a niche hobby into a cultural force. She made fantasy into a mainstream publishing category. She bet on Star Wars when no one else would. She saved The Princess Bride from oblivion. She published the first #1 New York Times science fiction bestseller.
She did all of this standing 4'1" tall in an industry run by men who underestimated her at every turn.
The next time you pick up a fantasy novel, or watch a Star Wars movie, or quote The Princess Bride—
Now you know who made it possible.
I don't have much to add to this. It's a rare reblogging by me. Judy-Lynn del Rey helped shape my early reading habits as a child who loved fantasy and science fiction and I didn't even know it. Like so many women, she made a huge impact in her chosen field, an impact that often went unacknowledged and unrecognized. Cheers to her for her work and her advocacy for authors she believed in and for genre fiction in general.
Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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