LC's talked about writing more in the setting. Probably 1950s and starring descendants of the current heroes. I'd buy it. :D
Warbound didn't get bogged down in its politics but there were serious issues addressed in it. How to have a equal society when inequality isn't just financial or intellectual but where one citizen can out fight/work/think hundreds of others is a tough problem.
a false dilemmaext_2623440July 28 2014, 18:06:55 UTC
I understand your ambivalence reviewing an entertaining book that is nonetheless not High Literature. I do not think Mr. Correia was trying to get his book assigned required reading in high school curricula. He aimed at a different target: your pleasure. It appears that his prose did the work it was supposed to. It may not be High Literature, but it is Good Writing.
Re: a false dilemmainverarityJuly 29 2014, 00:20:32 UTC
Well, entertaining and literary are not mutually exclusive, which is why ideally I'd like to vote for a book that accomplishes both. Finding one that hits that sweet spot of a compelling story told with prose that makes me sit up and take notice is hard, though.
Different squids for different kids. I'm currently being absolutely blown away by Neptune's Brood, because I maybe respond to speculative finance problems and that kind of humor in a way that you don't.
I found the Grimnoir moderately amusing and offensive in parts, and it seems to me that voting for it would be akin to tapping one's favorite 80s era Schwarzenegger action movie for an Oscar, but it's your vote.
It also seems to me that, once he made the decision to run as the Republican candidate for Best Novel, he made literary merit irrelevant in his case. Instead, you're now sending a message about gun rights and welfare by whether you upvote or downvote him. And he wanted it that way.
That's not an unfair point, but this is where I'd distinguish the Nebulas from the Hugos. The Nebulas are supposedly the industry's picks for best SF novel of the year, like the Oscars. Whereas the Hugos are, by design, populist. If a shoot'em up action movie was truly my favorite movie of the year, I'd feel no guilt about voting for it as "fan favorite," whereas I might be taken aback if it was nominated for an Oscar.
So if I am pro-gun rights, I guess I should vote for Larry Correia? :o Seriously, it's a SF award, not an election.
So if I am pro-gun rights, I guess I should vote for Larry Correia?
You wouldn't be the only one. The guy certainly has a passion for his guns and gun porn, which clearly comes across in his books to the delight or annoyance of readers who do or don't like guns.
Seems to me, he made the award a political election, and is the first to do so. Others may have made it a "popularity contest" in terms of an author's personal popularity rather than the book's worth, but he's made it ideological. Which is fine. He wants to be the Republican, I'll vote for one of the Independents. I'll also rank him above Wheel of Time, which is both unentertaining and literarily vapid (the first few books, anyhow. If you haven't grabbed me in the first 2,000 pages, I figure I'm within my rights to be suspicious of the rest), politics or no politics.
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Warbound didn't get bogged down in its politics but there were serious issues addressed in it. How to have a equal society when inequality isn't just financial or intellectual but where one citizen can out fight/work/think hundreds of others is a tough problem.
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Different squids for different kids. I'm currently being absolutely blown away by Neptune's Brood, because I maybe respond to speculative finance problems and that kind of humor in a way that you don't.
I found the Grimnoir moderately amusing and offensive in parts, and it seems to me that voting for it would be akin to tapping one's favorite 80s era Schwarzenegger action movie for an Oscar, but it's your vote.
It also seems to me that, once he made the decision to run as the Republican candidate for Best Novel, he made literary merit irrelevant in his case. Instead, you're now sending a message about gun rights and welfare by whether you upvote or downvote him. And he wanted it that way.
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So if I am pro-gun rights, I guess I should vote for Larry Correia? :o Seriously, it's a SF award, not an election.
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So if I am pro-gun rights, I guess I should vote for Larry Correia?
You wouldn't be the only one. The guy certainly has a passion for his guns and gun porn, which clearly comes across in his books to the delight or annoyance of readers who do or don't like guns.
Seems to me, he made the award a political election, and is the first to do so. Others may have made it a "popularity contest" in terms of an author's personal popularity rather than the book's worth, but he's made it ideological. Which is fine. He wants to be the Republican, I'll vote for one of the Independents. I'll also rank him above Wheel of Time, which is both unentertaining and literarily vapid (the first few books, anyhow. If you haven't grabbed me in the first 2,000 pages, I figure I'm within my rights to be suspicious of the rest), politics or no politics.
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