Butt-centric author Chuck Tingle out-tingles Vox Day, invites Zoe Quinn to the Hugos

Larry Correia’s work is generally regarded as pulpy (e.g., action and adventure and somewhat cliched storylines, not necessarily anything wrong with that). It’s gotten relatively good reviews, including by people on the left like John Scalzi. But there’s been more of a move towards giving awards to works considered more “literary” and convention breaking in SF and Fantasy.

I don’t think pulpy works should never get a Hugo. It’s just that Correia’s work is good but it’s not outstanding pulp SF. Of course, he couldn’t settle for having his own fan base and got involved with the worst possible crowd.

I can’t believe I watched that whole video of the guy reading Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Nomination.

It was worth it.

History Nerd:

I think, where it all fell down, is that Correia had a bad time at Worldcon that, together with his failure to win an award, was incontrovertible proof to him of a “whisper campaign” against him. When his attempt to counter these hidden detractors foundered, it was just proof of a BIGGER conspiracy against EVERYONE.

I feel like people prone to that kind of thinking often fall into the wrong crowd. At least, seeing Correia argue with George R.R. Martin last year, it seems almost inevitable. The man has a very unfriendly relationship with reality.

I don’t really understand the ‘Devilman’ and Matrix references, but Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt is the single greatest title for anything ever.

Chuck Tingle, you are a gift.

I swear I read this article 3 times and still am not sure I understood.
Vox trolled the Hugo by submitting a troll book, which the Hugo nominated to troll itself (?), then the writer started trolling Vox by inviting the person who Vox liked to troll to receive the prize.
That’s the situation, if i’m understanding.

@Chiomara
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@Tessa

“Breaking the Fourth Butt”

😀

@Imaginary Petal:
Buttception: A butt within a butt within a butt.
Oh, and My Ass is Haunted by the Gay Unicorn Colonel

And his newer stuff has “From Hugo Award Nominated Author.”
So are the actual stories any good?

Misha:
Go to Amazon.com and look up his other titles. That one is nothing compared to some of the others.

“Glazed By The Gay Living Doughnuts”.

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… HE IS PRECIOUS. PRESERVE HIM AT ALL COSTS.

“Turned Gay By The Existential Dread That I May Actually Be A Character In A Chuck Tingle Book.”

He’s the Dali of gay pornfic.

Yes, but Redshirts is by Scalzi, who, for reasons I’ve never been able to discern, is supreme leader of the SJWs. At least, you would get that impression from the obsession that Voxman and his dread ilk have for Scalzi.

Ben

Yeah. Correia was already relatively successful as a Fantasy/SF author and I’m not aware of anyone who thinks his work is actually bad (like, say, L. Ron Hubbard’s Mission Earth books). It’s true that other works of similar quality have gotten undeserved awards, but that doesn’t mean Correia should get an award. There was no conspiracy against him.

He’s basically ruined his career in mainstream Fantasy/SF by associating with people like Vox.

I don’t get the Kenna Reaves, proud dad thing at all. What does the Matrix have to do with anything? Please explain.

@ History Nerd

It’s just that Correia’s work is good but it’s not outstanding pulp SF. Of

It would be dramatically improved if he didn’t spend about one page in three lovingly describing every component of the protagonist’s gun, down to the screws that hold it together. (This is an exaggeration, but not much of one).

@Moggie

For real! He wrote a whole rant about how, in the good old days, if you saw a book with a spaceship on the cover, you knew you were in for a “rousing space adventure featuring starships and distant, amazing worlds”.

And, speaking as someone who’s been reading SF about as long as Brad Torgersen, he’s so staggeringly wrong I have to wonder what SF he’s actually been reading. I mean, sure, there’s always been some SF that’s just about whiz bang rayguns and pulpy space adventure, but that’s never been all or even a majority of the genre.
Take, for instance, Hammer’s Slammers, a well-known military SF series which began when Torgersen was about 5. Look at the cover:
Hovertank firing a big laser

So, look inside, and it’s full of tough as nails space mercenaries driving nuclear hover tanks, and laser gun battles abound. What it’s actually about, though, is the futility of war and the horrible effects it has on the bodies and minds of those who suffer through it, soldier and civilian alike. (Also, while there’s still a heavy straight white dude bias, it has a fairly diverse cast.)