This is what I posted about Castalia House on a mailing list earlier today (for context, I'm chairing the Helsinki in 2017 Worldcon bid and somewhat involved in both Finnish and Worldcon fandoms): Wright (the best description of whom that I've heard, being: "He's sort of like Gene Wolfe, with an involuntary lobotomy"). I am really really glad I'm not on the shortlist this year, as it means I don't have to rub shoulders with John C. (See also The Wheel of Time nom last year.) But I don't think he fully grasps the long term consequences of allowing a nomination backed by the sad puppies to go ahead. I suspect the only reason it hasn't happened before is because book 12 of an ongoing series tends not to get nominated. Jim Butcher certainly deserves to be on the Hugo shortlist. Suffice to say that consorting with dubious far-right/white supremacist political parties in Scandinavian countries is the least of it. My personal opinion of some of the participants is probably libelous, so I'm keeping it behind my own sealed lips unless they themselves provide incriminating public statements. At least until after the Hugo awards are announced. There is a lot more to this stuff than meets the eye, and there's stuff I know or have inferred that I cannot/will not talk about in public. Campbell was an obnoxious racist (consider that Heinlein wrote "Fifth Column" to an outline drafted by Campbell and toned down the racist/eliminationist invective against the Yellow Peril!), as well as a crank and a reactionary who thought teh wimmins' place was in the kitchen. The shout-out to "Campbellian" in the Castalia House bumph is telling - John W. Is the real game plan "Hugos today: Nebulas tomorrow?" Castalia House is a publishing entity with a short story anthology series. I believe he bears SFWA (and former SFWA President John Scalzi) no love, and the qualification for SFWA membership (which confers Nebula voting rights) is to have professionally published three short stories or a novel. My guess: the Hugo awards are not remotely as diverse and interesting as the SFWAs Nebula Awards-an organization from which Vox Day became only the second person ever to be expelled. (The Hugos, by their very nature, are an award anyone can vote in for a small fee: it is interesting to speculate on how deep Vox Day's pockets are.) But the real burning question is, "what will he attack next?" But this clearly isn't the end game they have in mind: it's only a beginning. Now they've attempted to turn the Hugo Awards into a battlefield in their (American) culture wars. Over a period of years, he's built an international coalition, finding common cause with the European neo-nazi fringe. Don't tolerate or respect what passes for their Don't work with those who denigrate your faith, your traditions, Don't buy from those who wish toĭestroy you. Start banding together and stop accommodating the secular world inĪny way. Learning from #GamerGate, to start learning from Sad Puppies, and start It's time for the church leaders and the heads of Christian families to start But the screaming question I feel the need to ask, is: why Finland? Could there be a connection between the white supremacist Perussuomalaiset (Finns Party), the overtly racist Sweden Democrats, the Dark Enlightenment/neoreactionary movement, and Vox Day's peculiarly toxic sect of Christian Dominionist theology? Total culture wars, very gamergate, much fail, wow. We seek nothing less than aĬampbellian revolution in genre literature. Readers who increasingly feel alienated from the nihilistic, dogmatic scienceįiction and fantasy being published today. We are consciously providing an alternative to Howard, G.K.Ĭhesterton, and Hermann Hesse. Publish honor the traditions and intellectual authenticity exemplified by The golden age of science fiction and fantasy literature. As their website explains:Ĭastalia House is a Finland-based publisher that has a great appreciation for Castalia House was (per wikipedia) founded by Theodore Beale (aka Vox Day) in early 2014 in Kouvola, Finland.
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