The Gristle Cli-Fi Anthology!
Aug. 26th, 2022 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
I'm delighted to report that the long-awaited anthology of stories from my Gristle cli-fi parody contest, The Flesh Of Your Future Sticks Between My Teeth, is in press and will be released on September 10th of this year! (If you're new to this story, you can get the gory details here, here, here, and here. 
Twelve stories, all of them making merry mockery of the pretensions of the Grist cli-fi contest (now, gods help us, an annual festival of woke virtue signaling disguised as a science fiction anthology) to tickle your funny bone and annoy your self-important friends. It's being published by Looseleaf Publishing, well known to many of you as the firm behind the fine deindustrial sci-fi magazine New Maps. Preorders? Here's the place. The cost is $16 plus shipping; Looseleaf wil ship worldwide, though you may have to contact the proprietor for details. Ah, but I need a little additional help to get this pug into the air. The publisher and I have agreed to spare a small number of review copies. One of those will be going to Grist Magazine, where it will doubtless elicit shrieks of outrage as it's being repeatedly flung against the wall. (One of the less impressive features of the current left is its remarkable inability to laugh at itself.) I'd like to arrange to send the others to bloggers, podcasters, and media outlets where somebody is likely to read it, chuckle, and post something about it. What say you, fellow pug pilots? Is there any venue you think would be a great place to send one of these for publicity purposes? Inquiring editors want to know.
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Date: 2022-08-27 03:25 am (UTC)And he does know how to lambaste when given the chance.
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Date: 2022-08-27 05:37 pm (UTC)Russell Brand?
Date: 2022-08-27 07:14 am (UTC)Re: Russell Brand?
Date: 2022-08-27 05:38 pm (UTC)Re: Russell Brand?
Date: 2022-08-29 02:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 10:16 am (UTC)Perhaps the podcaster Dan Carlin, of https://www.dancarlin.com/?
_Maybe_ the YouTuber Ross Scott, of https://www.accursedfarms.com/? I realize that that one may seem odd on first glance, but he's thoughtful, has a sense of humor, and has expressed interest in this sort of thing before (particularly here, that I'm aware of; the link is to a video, but the audio's the important part with the glowing blobs on glass fully ignorable as far as the important information goes: https://youtu.be/5n90WohCSIg?t=3480). I'm not sure if the prospects are good enough to be worth using one of the limited number of review copies, but I thought suggesting someone who seemed unlikely to already be on your list or be suggested by many other people might still be useful.
(I actually recommended you to him after hearing that bit of that video; he seemed interested in, but he was also behind on reading at the time. I'm not sure how things may have developed since.)
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Date: 2022-08-27 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 10:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 05:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 11:06 am (UTC)*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
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Date: 2022-08-27 05:39 pm (UTC)eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-27 02:31 pm (UTC)Two talkative authors who are .. off-centre and gristly enough to get a real kick out of out it and possibly take it somewhere. Though I suspect they get so many ARCs that it is a bit of hit or miss to get their attention.
Neil Gaiman, who is trying to distance himself from Wokeness ever since Wokesters finally noticed that one of his fiction happens to work out to match their beliefs.
Cory Doctorow who lives in the blogsphere and writes sooo much that keeping up is a challenge. He currently has a kickstarter that shows a strong part of his anti-establishmentism https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/chokepoint-capitalism-an-audiobook-amazon-wont-sell
Re: eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-27 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-28 06:49 pm (UTC)Re: eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-29 03:20 pm (UTC)Re: eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-28 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: eBooks?
Date: 2022-08-29 03:25 pm (UTC)How About..
Date: 2022-08-27 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: How About..
Date: 2022-08-27 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Assuming that you don't want this to degenerate into a Left/Right Woke/Anti-woke shouting match, which would be a pity, I think as a start you could interest two traditional leftists who have fled the Woke movement, and who have readers from all over the spectrum. One is Freddie de Boer, who has written scathingly, if I recall correctly, about the belief in some quarters that humour is somehow dangerous, and who's also interested in the hard work of actually bringing a liveable future about. The other is Rhyd Wildermuth, whom many here will no doubt know, and who is writing a book now on his escape from wokeness.
More speculatively, Scott Alexander's site Astral Codex Ten might be worth a look. For those who don't know him, Alexander is a clinical psychiatrist and an important figure in the Rationalist and Effective Altruism movements. He features books very frequently (there is a book review competition in progress now) and, if the overall mood of the site tends to be rather technology/progress oriented, many of the contributors are highly qualified scientists and engineers, and they tend to be very realistic about technology and its practical limitations. Alexander himself strikes me as vary fair-minded and frequently posts on wider issues, such as applied ethics. At a minimum; ACR has a monthly or so "classified" page where new books, jobs etc. are announced.
Aurelien.
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Date: 2022-08-27 05:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 06:38 pm (UTC)Another person with a decent size microphone who really understands that solutions to climate change crises etc., proposed by the elites are only good for redistributing the $$ from the poor to the elites and nothing else, is Jordan Peterson. As a matter of fact, lately, when he talks about what the WEF and the best and brightest in world governments are up to, it's almost 100% like reading your essays on the same subject.
By the way, sometimes he unpacks a paragraph or even a single sentence from Nitche or Jung and this is so great - I can read the same paragraph 10 times by myself and not see even 1/10 of the connections and meaning there. Would love to see a post where you think out loud about your favorite passages from these guys. Just an idea :)
Jordan Peterson?
Date: 2022-08-27 09:29 pm (UTC)Ron M
Frank Kaminski
Date: 2022-08-27 09:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-27 11:11 pm (UTC)New Sources
Date: 2022-08-28 02:18 am (UTC)Perhaps it would be best to exercise patience before entering into the mainstream megalomaniacal broadcast - whose blood price of admission is well known and little camouflaged...
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Date: 2022-08-28 06:22 am (UTC)Hermitix podcast, El Gato Malo, Jordan Peterson, Bari Weiss, TrueAnon, KMO, Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying, Team Human, Jasun Horsely, Jerm Warfare, Thaddeus Russell, Mike Rowe, Rogan, Attack Ads, Masjid Nawaz, Eric July, Red Scare, Russell Brand, Kim Iverson, Neil Oliver, Alison Morrow
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Date: 2022-08-29 11:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-28 11:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-28 02:18 pm (UTC)I am very much looking forward to Jim Kunstler's reaction – probably in podcast form? – to this book.
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Date: 2022-08-28 06:44 pm (UTC)Also +1 for Russell Brand, Rogan, and Dr. Peterson. Seeing or hearing you on one of their podcasts would make at least my year.
Edit - on second thought, the "blood price" commenter above has a good point.
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Date: 2022-08-28 10:28 pm (UTC)https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/about-us
The Quartering
Date: 2022-08-29 12:56 am (UTC)I found a link to contact him though subscribe star. Need to subscribe to his channel to message him here;
https://www.subscribestar.com/thequartering/subscribe
Jeremy MacKenzie (if you want to get really edgy)
Date: 2022-08-29 01:54 am (UTC)https://truthtellernl.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/statement-by-jeremy-mackenzie-founder-of-the-fun-fictional-country-of-diagolon-empire-of-lies-2/
https://jeremymackenzie.substack.com/p/the-greater-good
Ron M
Delighted to See This!
Date: 2022-08-29 11:54 am (UTC)I second
Somewhere, perhaps, with a bit more potential for getting the book covered or reviewed would be Quillette. They cover the culture wars all the time, and they also post book reviews quite often as well. This would fit nicely within their orbit. The other interesting thing, is that although Quillette is often a critical voice of various theories and ideologies, they also seem to be boosters for nuclear power, and other "progress" agendas. So this collection might be real interesting for them.
Justin Patrick Moore
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Date: 2022-09-04 07:15 pm (UTC)