Ok, so everybody on one side of this Sad Puppies thing wants an example of The Problem. They keep saying "What's your [expletive deleted] Problem you [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted].
Alrighty then. Compare the non-Sad Puppies pick for Novelette:"The Day The World Turned Upside Down" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.
"The Parliament of Beasts and Birds", by John C. Wright,
Yes, you should READ them. Go ahead, they're small.
I guess I was mistaken. I didn't think anyone would have nominated The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere if it had featured a straight couple.
ReplyDeleteI rage quit Upside Down when the main character let some woman fall to her death while he rescued a gold fish. Later I skimmed the rest of it, it didn't improve.
ReplyDeleteRob - if the narrator in The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere had been straight, would he have been so worried about how his family would react?
ReplyDelete(and yes, The Day The World Turned Upside-Down annoys me too, for a lot of reasons. The fact that the protagonist is a stupid fuckup who accidentally lets a woman die... is not one of them, surprisingly; not everyone in every story is able to always make the right decision -- see, for instance, "The Cold Equations" -- and sometimes a reflex attempt to grab a moving object can have lethal consequences.)
"...not everyone in every story is able to always make the right decision..."
ReplyDeleteTrue. Personal failing of mine, I can't suffer fools. So reading stories where the MC is some kind of doofus or moral midget is torture for me.