[BRIEF NOTE] My new literary fame
Apr. 16th, 2008 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldBack in April 2004, as a diversion from graduate school, I wrote a post "France, its Muslims, and the Future" that examined the question of whether Muslims would one day outnumber Christians in France and create a République islamique de la France. I concluded that such was quite unlikely, given the general convergence of fertility rates and a fairly high amount of assimilation. I concluded that one explanation for the popularity of Eurabia was the desire, among non-Europeans, for Europe to be punished for its various social, economic, and foreign policy sins.
Back in August 2005, I reviewed the book Watch on the Rhine, a book co-written by Thomas Kratman and John Ringo that prominently featured the SS as valiant warriors protecting Germany against the alien hordes. (I believe that an Israeli featured as a man who had to overcome his prejudice against the noble SS members.) The review got a fair amount of attention, not least because I posted it on USENET's rec.arts.sf.written. I've no idea what Ringo thought of it. I do know that Kratman was so peturbed that he lambasted me on the Baen forums (I'm a sensitive homosexual, apparently) and put a brief quote from my review on his website. I suggested, in my review, that this sort of book represented a worrisome trend in some areas of science fiction, particularly American science fiction.
What are they doing now? Ringo has recently been writing a series in which, as described in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hradska's review, the female characters are mostly sex workers who like being raped and/or torturing/killing people. Kratman has come out with Caliphate, in which the Muslim hordes do take over Europe and make the degenerate Christians of the continent into second class citizens.
At the end of the book, he includes an afterword, apparently confusing total fertility rates with cohort fertility rates, assuming that immigration to Europe is dominated by Muslims, taking worst-case scenarios and rare acts to be entirely representative of the future, and simultaneously providing the standard listing of right-wing policy recommendations for Europe while proclaiming Europe doomed. It's a bit of an embarrassing mess.
A while ago, Demetrios told me that I should look out for the afterword. What did I find there when I opened the pages? Near the beginning of his essay, he refers to "world-famous literary critic, Randy McDonald" (374).
It's been three years. I didn't know I stung that much.
Back in August 2005, I reviewed the book Watch on the Rhine, a book co-written by Thomas Kratman and John Ringo that prominently featured the SS as valiant warriors protecting Germany against the alien hordes. (I believe that an Israeli featured as a man who had to overcome his prejudice against the noble SS members.) The review got a fair amount of attention, not least because I posted it on USENET's rec.arts.sf.written. I've no idea what Ringo thought of it. I do know that Kratman was so peturbed that he lambasted me on the Baen forums (I'm a sensitive homosexual, apparently) and put a brief quote from my review on his website. I suggested, in my review, that this sort of book represented a worrisome trend in some areas of science fiction, particularly American science fiction.
What are they doing now? Ringo has recently been writing a series in which, as described in
hradska's review, the female characters are mostly sex workers who like being raped and/or torturing/killing people. Kratman has come out with Caliphate, in which the Muslim hordes do take over Europe and make the degenerate Christians of the continent into second class citizens. At the end of the book, he includes an afterword, apparently confusing total fertility rates with cohort fertility rates, assuming that immigration to Europe is dominated by Muslims, taking worst-case scenarios and rare acts to be entirely representative of the future, and simultaneously providing the standard listing of right-wing policy recommendations for Europe while proclaiming Europe doomed. It's a bit of an embarrassing mess.
A while ago, Demetrios told me that I should look out for the afterword. What did I find there when I opened the pages? Near the beginning of his essay, he refers to "world-famous literary critic, Randy McDonald" (374).
It's been three years. I didn't know I stung that much.
