Monthly Archives: April 2012

On the deafening silence – and worse – from liberal Jewish & Gentile genre folk in response to China Mieville’s rabid anti-Semitism Part 10

This is the penultimate chapter in my China Mieville series beginning here. The previous chapter in this series is chapter 9 ‘Mieville’s obscene and cowardly slurs about the release of Gilad Shalit…’ This article also repeats a lot of what … Continue reading

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Far Left anti-Israel ‘Jewish’ writer Felix Gilman scrolls down through my blog, hits the series on Holocaust Revisionism and Tweets… oblivious

The first article of mine on Felix Gilman – the previous one to this one – is necessary background and context for this article. I remarked in that article that there was a tweet of his (which I copied and … Continue reading

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An extensive reply to writers Felix Gilman, Laura Anne Gilman & outgoing VP of the SFWA Mary Robinette Kowal’s tweeting on the first John Scalzi article

I had replied to the tweets of John Scalzi, Scott Edelman, Mike Allen and others over here (including Mary Robinette Kowal’s initial tweets). They were responding to this article entitled ‘John Scalzi writer and president of the SFWA comes to … Continue reading

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Lavie Tidhar’s response to my Mieville series – “…seems to be on a China Mieville bender at the moment”. Tidhar’s further tweeting on my blog, makes sure to praise Mieville to the skies as a writer at the same time

These tweets from Lavie Tidhar as well as Laura Anne Gilman elucidated on below were sent on January 27/28 midnight London time (give or take an hour or so. Tidhar is resident in the London area), i.e. still January 27th … Continue reading

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Publishers Weekly’s Jewish editor Rose Fox blogs on the April Fools’ Jokes posted up in the SF blogosphere. Asks if there are any others to add to the list…

So there were as to be expected lots of April Fools’ jokes blogged among the SF cognoscenti… Publishers Weekly’s Rose Fox (who I have blogged about quite a lot recently – yes three distinct articles all to herself!) puts up … Continue reading

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Apex Magazine announces forthcoming publication of special all-Jewish issue in response to the anti-Semitism in the professional genre community

As many SF and Fantasy fans out there know the gay/bisexual feminist ex-editor at Apex Magazine Catherynne M Valente oversaw the publication of a special all-Arab/Muslim issue of Apex Magazine in November 2010. This was largely in response to the … Continue reading

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