-The Kindle I use to read the SFL Archives decided to suicide itself during yet another blowjob hagiography review of Spider Robinson at the 2% mark in SFL Vol 10, and I didn't blame it.
(sidenote 2020: In my free time waiting for a replacement Kindle device, gave Spider Robinson's work a re-read after dissing him hard last in my previous SFL Archives read-through posts, because maybe I'd been too harsh towards Spider Robinson previously?)
-Lots of David Eddings BELEGARIAD discussion, lots of Piers Anthony story discussion, and lots of Spider Robinson story discussion
2020 joke: <Jeopardy buzzer: Alex, what is "Authors whose work aged beyond hyper-badly for $800?"
Alex Trebek: "CORRECT." >
2020 Joke Explainer: Giving Spider Robinson's work a re-read was a big mistake. Repeated instances of outright sexual assault, jailbait, underaged date rape, non-consentual bdsm, date rape, rape, etc in all of Spider Robinson's short stories & novels.
-Frank Herbert's Dune series continues to be discussed, not so much the DUNE 1984 movie. Much SFL internal amusement comes from reposting an old interview excerpt where Frank Herbert says: "I'm still against the idea of sequels in principle, because it's like watering down your wine all the time until you're left with just water." This is extremely funny given how many Dune sequels/prequels have come out since 1999.
-Piers Anthony had only released 8 XANTH books up to this point in 1985...<shakes head in 2020>...and most of the 1985 SFL readers demand more Piers Anthony stories. More discerning SFL posters noticed that each new Xanth book has upped the perv-factor with female characters in them getting dumber, and younger.
-someone posts about the 1985 convention BOSKONE 22 being terrible on multiple levels (massively overcharging one-day pass people, overcrowded, terrible panels, worse film schedule, actively hostile venue, etc) with other SFL posters chiming in agreeing. One of the Boskone 22 organizers posts a big-ass "how fucking dare you" crocodile tears effort post that fails to address any of the complaints many SFL people posted about re: Boskone 22.
-Robert Forward's ROCHEWORLD gets held up as a model of good hard science fiction writing, which uh as a first time reader of Rocheworld and it's sequel 2 weeks ago in 2020, I can firmly say; HELL NO. Rocheworld was not good or hard science fiction beyond the light-sail setup.
-book publisher f**kery pt 47: Diane Duane's (who I had never heard of
before or totally forgotten about (I really didn't read YA fiction
growing up)) book 2 of a existing series comes out, which leads into a
digression about book publishers (Dell) cancelling entire print runs,
Ballantine Books dying, books being stuff in publishing limbo, Bluejay
Press taking up the copyrights, and Bluejay Press as usual utterly
f**king up the release dates of books.
-BLUEJAY PRESS is or rather was the anti-matter version of BAEN BOOKS. Bluejay Press seemed to have good talent scouts and signed lots of amazing in retrospect fantasy & SciFi authors but could never release a book on time, usually missing their own publishing dates by 4 months or more. Meanwhile, Baen Books was the complete opposite in every way.
-BLUEJAY PRESS is or rather was the anti-matter version of BAEN BOOKS. Bluejay Press seemed to have good talent scouts and signed lots of amazing in retrospect fantasy & SciFi authors but could never release a book on time, usually missing their own publishing dates by 4 months or more. Meanwhile, Baen Books was the complete opposite in every way.
-pt 57 of me realizing how f**king old/how long certain authors have
been around for. Example: George RR Martin & Stephen Donaldson were mentioned as
promising up-coming talented authors when the SF-LOVERS mailing list
started up in late 1979....this time circa 1984 it's Mary Gentle and Somtow Sucharitkul.
-Theodore Sturgeon death notice (RIP)
-20th century fox (rip, lol disney buyout) tries to get a rocky horror picture show subculture going for it's 1984 movie BUCKAROO BANZAI repeated times in the SFL mailing list.
-1985 marks the first time that April 1st jokes/pranks become the THING to post on April 1st.
-The doxxing of Richard Bachman being Stephen King is completed, and some SFLer's make some extremely notMad posts about it.
-Steven Brust starts posting prolifically in the SFL mailing list about many many things.
Direct quote: "If you really want mainstream quality writing in fantasy, I recommend the Gor books of John Norman." Steven Brust, SFL Archives Volume 10
-Theodore Sturgeon death notice (RIP)
-20th century fox (rip, lol disney buyout) tries to get a rocky horror picture show subculture going for it's 1984 movie BUCKAROO BANZAI repeated times in the SFL mailing list.
-1985 marks the first time that April 1st jokes/pranks become the THING to post on April 1st.
-The doxxing of Richard Bachman being Stephen King is completed, and some SFLer's make some extremely notMad posts about it.
-Steven Brust starts posting prolifically in the SFL mailing list about many many things.
Direct quote: "If you really want mainstream quality writing in fantasy, I recommend the Gor books of John Norman." Steven Brust, SFL Archives Volume 10
(sidenote 2020: Have and will continue to re-quote 'Steven Brust recommending GOR' anywhere Steven Brust gets discussed online. The Steven Brust recommending GOR quote also lead to to my working hypothesis of:
If Heinlein inspired a never ending series of libertarian writers, well
then John Norman's GOR books inspired and showed that skeevy sex sells
in fantasy and scifi.
originally posted August 11th - August 23th in the SomethingAwful forums Science Fiction Fantasy Megathread 3
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