Thursday, August 31, 2006

Words were passed, a shotgun blast

Wow, check out this blogfight. Apparently Harlan Ellison (known as that guy to some in the sf world, or so it seems) groped Connie Willis on stage at an awards show for science fiction. For those not in the know, this is the sci-fi equivalent of Cormac McCarthy feeling up Marilynne Robinson.

Anyway, this online battle began when this blogger guy accused various Internet and sf personalities including Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi. Said personalities responded, in the latter case multiple times and with vitriol.

2 comments:

Julia said...

What an odd story!

And thumbs up for the Springsteen reference.

Tripp said...

Who knew sci fi conventions could get so wacky, outside of the costumes.