Recently, there was something of a furor at Strange Horizons over the publication of Liz Bourke’s scathing review of Michael J. Sullivan’s Theft of Swords.The comment thread exploded: for every respondent who liked the piece, there were three more lambasting it as being unprofessional, arrogant, vitriolic, and “in the style of a schoolyard bully”. Now, [...]
Archive for January 19, 2012
Criticism In SFF and YA
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Critical HitTags: Authors, Bad, Bias, Books, Criticism, Culture, Fantasy, Gender, Genre, Goodreads, Into the Woods, Literary, Literature, Liz Bourke, Mainstream, Michael J Sullivan, Nice, Niceness, Politics, Race, Readers, Reviews, Sexism, Sexuality, SF/F, Society, Strange Horizons, Theft of Swords, Tyrion Lannister, Veronica Roth, Writing, YA
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