Dear Team Torchwood

[rm]

http://johncwright.livejournal.com/269139.html

You know what to do. :)

(Also, why do I share? John C Wright is a SF/F pro, and considering most of the consumers of SF/F I know are LGBTQ or allies, I thought you might want to know whose books not to buy).

ETA: http://rm.livejournal.com/1686347.html?thread=14970699

Yeah, you can shut down the comments, but we can still tell the world you're a bigot who can't construct an argument. One advocates for not paying for you work, the other advocates for not reading it at all.

Thanks for playing. Also, I heard scads of people emailed Tor.

Comments

[demotu.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

But American Gods is kind of specifically about cultural appropriation. Sort of. Like, I think the cultural appropriation there is pretty stated, like "look, these gods/beings come from these cultures, but what happened to them in the US?" (Note: I am only 2/3 of the way through it right now.)

As you say though, YMMV, and I haven't read Anansi Boys. Anyway, I don't expect anyone to be perfect, I just expect them to be conscious and trying, and NG seems to be that, from what I've seen of him.

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about _American Gods_. One of my degrees deals heavily in religious iconography and practice, and I think he did well. He (mostly) didn't say anything that made me go, "Wow! So you completely misunderstood that whole culture and religion." I think that you're right - it's about what happens when cultures fade away.

If you want to talk about it when you're done - I would totally love to! It's a great book.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I'm pretty ignorant to it all, so I probably have a different perspective reading it. It's such a freaking cool idea, though, I love it. I've never read any NG before this - just saw a few interviews with him and thought "wow, he's seems like a really smart and nice guy!" and decided I should. I've been so busy as of late it's been a slow read, but that's probably a good thing since I start skimming when I down books too quickly, and there's too much good detail to miss here.