“Q: I tend to be conservative in my thinking. How much should I hide my politics in order to avoid being blacklisted?
A: In a field that worships Robert A. Heinlein above all others, you’re worried about not being liberal? You see a lot of left-wing politics in Analog or over in Baen Books, do you?
The question is ludicrous, but here’s a serious answer: no one gets blackballed in this field for any political or religious philosophy. Never have, probably never will.”
What’s your perspective? I mean, I think Sad Puppies blew this narrative up in relation to the Nebulas, but is he right about the publishing world? As a conservative with strong libertarian tendencies I think this matters.
Hey, I read an interview done by Writer’s of the Future in 2017 with Mike Resnick ( https://www.writersofthefuture.com/q-a-with-mike-resnick ).
In it there was the following exchange:
“Q: I tend to be conservative in my thinking. How much should I hide my politics in order to avoid being blacklisted?
A: In a field that worships Robert A. Heinlein above all others, you’re worried about not being liberal? You see a lot of left-wing politics in Analog or over in Baen Books, do you?
The question is ludicrous, but here’s a serious answer: no one gets blackballed in this field for any political or religious philosophy. Never have, probably never will.”
What’s your perspective? I mean, I think Sad Puppies blew this narrative up in relation to the Nebulas, but is he right about the publishing world? As a conservative with strong libertarian tendencies I think this matters.
All due respect to Resnick, he may have been right at one point, but by 2017, he was really wrong on this one.
The Nick Cole ctrl-alt-revolt issue was in 2016, so past the point of even being arguable.