Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

"prestorjon" <prestorjon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> I don't know Piper's views and I haven't read much of  his work, but
> in Stirling's case the fact that he's come off online as a raging
> asshole does reflect negatively on his work.  And it's not just the
> personality but his views.  It's one thing to read a story where the
> FICTIONAL world contains unsettling elements but quite another to find
> out that the author himself believes such to be true.  Some people
> have mentioned his penchant for lesbian or bi-curious female T&A in
> his stories but what I find rather more disturbing is the seemingly
> positive attitude towards paternalism that several of his stories
> demonstrate.  One can, as Stirling has, argue that this is merely him
> exploring certain topics but there's not actually much of intellectual
> value in Stirling's "explorations" and it crops up a bit too often.

 I've wondered about this - not any authors particular beliefs but how it 
affects the reader's enjoyment.

 I can imagine an author being so personally loathsome that I would not
want 
to read or financially sup****t them via book purchases. But they would
have 
to be really REALLY bad.

 Does reading Mien Kampf or Das Kapital imply sup****t of either author?

 In fact in some cases it works in their favour. It can be amusing to pick

out an author's hot-button pet ideas in their fiction.