Let There Be Holy War Upon Heaven & Earth

[akirlu]

I hereby denounce the New Eclectics as a bunch of non-serious, impure mongrel revisionists of Ulm. I do this because Movement SF is dumb, and I want no part of it. Also, I have a dire fear of briarpatches. Go forth, my minions, and make holy war on Charlie. Or, you know, not.

On the other hand, writing a type of Genre Stuff you would normally not be seen dead with is a very interesting prompt. I guess it's Guntoting Libertarians in Space for me.

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[madefromscratch.livejournal.com]

I followed the link one step further to Richard Morgan's piece.

Disclaimer: I like Morgan enough to know that he does get lazy and sometimes has a hackish moment. But I was really impressed by his musings and stories, even if they are more crime thriller than sci-fi at times.

His take on this whole mess is the correct one, I believe.

WTF, as long as someone is reading it, and someone is writing it, it's all good.

Now I have my preferences, but they are my preferences.

I like real science, real follow through on philosophical tangents, and real characters.

But then again, I was always convinced that Ayn Rand was a Sci-fi writer.

I think I'm going to post a link to the Morgan piece just for old times sake.