February 26th, 2009 / 6:08 pm
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Controversy at Helix!!!!! And the Invention of Transcriptase!

I'm singing "Controversy" right now in my kitchen.

I found out about this controversy just today even though it happened a while ago. I thought I would share it. It happened at Helix, an online speculative fiction magazine. One of the editors refered to Muslims as “sheet heads” and he said some other really fucked up stuff. People asked to take down their work. Chaos ensued. If you like to stare at a train wreck, click here and read all about it! I stared enough today. I will say this- it makes me feel better about being a stupid asshole  and half crazy sometimes (see comment section in previous post), because now I know that someone else is fifty million times stupider and assholier and full on crazier than me! Like how I sometimes go– well, at least I didn’t murder anyone–after a bad night of drinking. Also, I read some of the stuff on it and it was fun. I like a bit of genre in my life from time to time.

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8 Comments

  1. February 26th, 2009 / 10:46 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Thanks for posting this, pr.

      Begs the question: posting your rejection letters, right or wrong? Anyone?

  2. February 26th, 2009 / 6:46 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Thanks for posting this, pr.

      Begs the question: posting your rejection letters, right or wrong? Anyone?

  3. February 26th, 2009 / 6:49 pm pr—

      Well, I did it once. I have no problem with it. But I also have given it no real thought.

  4. February 26th, 2009 / 10:56 pm Matthew Simmons—

      I just read the last couple of paragraphs in that story.

      “Meanwhile, Sanders’ email to Yoon Ha Lee, in response to her request to have her work removed, contained the following racist insult:

      “Certainly I would not want to continue to publish a story against the author’s wishes, especially a story like this one that never did make any sense and that I only accepted because I thought it might please those who admire your work, and also because (notorious bigot that I am) I was trying to get more work by non-Caucasian writers.”

      That guy sounds like a real charmer.

  5. February 26th, 2009 / 6:56 pm Matthew Simmons—

      I just read the last couple of paragraphs in that story.

      “Meanwhile, Sanders’ email to Yoon Ha Lee, in response to her request to have her work removed, contained the following racist insult:

      “Certainly I would not want to continue to publish a story against the author’s wishes, especially a story like this one that never did make any sense and that I only accepted because I thought it might please those who admire your work, and also because (notorious bigot that I am) I was trying to get more work by non-Caucasian writers.”

      That guy sounds like a real charmer.

  6. February 26th, 2009 / 8:20 pm pr—

      Dude’s a freaker, no doubt.

  7. February 27th, 2009 / 5:03 am Ryan Call—

      fuck that guy

  8. February 27th, 2009 / 1:03 am Ryan Call—

      fuck that guy