I'm 7 chapters into John C. Wright's The Golden Age, and I'm surprised at how... amazingly good it is. I first heard of Wright when David Brin pwned Wright's Luddite foolishness. Later, wandering around, I read about Wright's apparently famous anti-gay blog post, which he soon deleted. But here's Hal Duncan's epic curb stomp on Wright, still high up on the Google search results.
I want to believe that this guy is an asshat. And certainly there's asshattery here: "If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics." Really, Wright? Seriously? To add to Wright's sins, he even panned Ted Chiang's brilliant "Stories of Your Life and Others."
But it's the tale, not he who tells it. Obvious example, Lovecraft was a racist, and while not a Lovecraft fan, I respect the mythos.
EDIT: In the comments below, John C. Wright (seems legit) bizarrely claims David Brin was making it all up. So here's the link to Wright's Luddite blog post.
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You do know that David Brin was just making that up, right? I never said nor implied any of the things he attributed to me. When I wrote and told him privately, not wishing to embarrass the old man, he called me a liar, and said that HE knew the secret thoughts unspoken in my heart, but that I did not. That is why I never wrote any public rebuttal of his comments. -- John C. Wright
ReplyDeleteWhat? David Brin was replying to this post on John C. Wright's livejournal:
ReplyDeletehttp://johncwright.livejournal.com/441048.html
The Luddite blog post pining for the days of yore is still there.