Re: hating the creator

Mark Atwood wrote:
jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) writes:
Let me attempt to clarify: Mark and I disagree on lots and
lots of things. However, I find it completely understandable if
contact with an author (direct or indirect) led him to re-evaluate
whether he wanted to buy their books.

So far only one author has rung that bell for me. Joat Simion. And
he wrung it when he got threatening.

Both him and Hogan for me. Though I did finish buying the Sea of Time
series via a used book store, which satisfied both my desire to complete
the series and the desire not to give him one more cent, and I bought a
used copy of Cradle of Saturn to serve as a permanent reminder not to
pine for new Hogan books from now on. :) In the case of Egan it's
nowhere near the same, though. I don't find his notion of spacefaring
intelligent life universally deciding to forgoing continued expansion to
be objectionable, just highly implausible.

I assumed back when I read Diaspora that it was just an artificial
device he'd added to the story's setting to keep it stable over the
story's timeline so he could focus on the plots he wanted to focus on.
Sort of like how Vinge created the Zones of Thought to ensure there'd be
sub-Singularity civilizations around rather than because he thinks it's
remotely plausible for physics to work that way. I can suspend disbelief
on one aspect of a setting while still appreciating the hard SF
trappings in the other aspects of the setting, at least in these
particular cases.
.

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