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Ringo vs Scalzi
Sep. 6th, 2013 01:03 pmA man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it. - Doc Holliday "Tombstone"
There's been a dustup between John Scalzi's Hugo award for 'Redshirts' and John Ringo's assertation that it represented the urges of the shadowy liberal cabal that controls the voting. Ringo's rant scampers all around the Liberatarian plantation (he asserts at one point that fellow Liberatarians like himself are 'Jacksonian', which presumably means he supports Native genocide and the primacy of Federal powers in the US or he's just enthralled by the big stick and not the history) going crazier and crazier. I wouldn't waste my time on his Facebook rants for anything beyond sick entertainment.
Instead, I direct you to a detailed review of some of the more rapey sides to Ringo's writing, and suggest that Scalzi's feminist advocacy has scored a personal slight against Johnny Ringo's sensibilities - http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
In the fairness of full disclosure, I never liked Ringo's writing. It was like Weber if you replaced Weber's strongest technical abilities before he went off the rails a few years ago - secondary characters, atmosphere, deft protrayal of complex battlefields - with a huge honking dose of obnoxious action movie drek and politics. I dimly recall one of his characters raping someone straight and Republican, so that was pretty much that for me.
There's been a dustup between John Scalzi's Hugo award for 'Redshirts' and John Ringo's assertation that it represented the urges of the shadowy liberal cabal that controls the voting. Ringo's rant scampers all around the Liberatarian plantation (he asserts at one point that fellow Liberatarians like himself are 'Jacksonian', which presumably means he supports Native genocide and the primacy of Federal powers in the US or he's just enthralled by the big stick and not the history) going crazier and crazier. I wouldn't waste my time on his Facebook rants for anything beyond sick entertainment.
Instead, I direct you to a detailed review of some of the more rapey sides to Ringo's writing, and suggest that Scalzi's feminist advocacy has scored a personal slight against Johnny Ringo's sensibilities - http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
In the fairness of full disclosure, I never liked Ringo's writing. It was like Weber if you replaced Weber's strongest technical abilities before he went off the rails a few years ago - secondary characters, atmosphere, deft protrayal of complex battlefields - with a huge honking dose of obnoxious action movie drek and politics. I dimly recall one of his characters raping someone straight and Republican, so that was pretty much that for me.
