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marinessI was going to leap into the fun with a blog entry about the latest Fun With SFWA and Internet Petitions, but amusing as it's been to watch a non-member and 1% of the membership start a flame war up over something that doesn't even exist, and to have this immediately labelled a SFWA controversy, it's also kinda tiring.
So apart from noting, again, that many full, active members of SFWA either never received either controversial petition in the first place (me) or refused to sign them (many, many others - in fact, refusal to sign is what brought this to public attention in the first place), instead I'll just point you to the latest Tor.com blog post, this time about one of Lloyd Alexander's more unusual books: a novel that is half fiction, half memoir, interlaced with fierce commentary on the United States educational system on and the negative effects of war. As I've said before, Alexander's experience in World War II was almost uniformly negative, but until I read this book, I hadn't realized that he had also encountered World War I veterans suffering from shell-shock - what would today be called PTSD.
As I wrote in my post, it was an interesting read, one that reads much better on a second reading, when you realize what Alexander was doing. I rather wish I'd read it earlier in the reread: it would have given me a lot more insight into Alexander's writings with these posts.
So apart from noting, again, that many full, active members of SFWA either never received either controversial petition in the first place (me) or refused to sign them (many, many others - in fact, refusal to sign is what brought this to public attention in the first place), instead I'll just point you to the latest Tor.com blog post, this time about one of Lloyd Alexander's more unusual books: a novel that is half fiction, half memoir, interlaced with fierce commentary on the United States educational system on and the negative effects of war. As I've said before, Alexander's experience in World War II was almost uniformly negative, but until I read this book, I hadn't realized that he had also encountered World War I veterans suffering from shell-shock - what would today be called PTSD.
As I wrote in my post, it was an interesting read, one that reads much better on a second reading, when you realize what Alexander was doing. I rather wish I'd read it earlier in the reread: it would have given me a lot more insight into Alexander's writings with these posts.