Re: Worst Hugos Ever?

On Feb 28, 5:48�pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 25, 12:54 pm, Gene Ward Smith <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:97c9708c-25f8-
4284-8473-7b1fe208b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
I have read Generation of Vipers, the book that added
"momism" to the
language.

Me too, God knows why. The man needed the services of a good
psychotherapist.

What? You didn't think his book was a refreshing breath of sanity and
fresh air?

Yes, he did come down a bit hard on the women of the 1950s, but I'm
sure that as the years went on, he would have come to see that women's
liberation was a valid and positive thing. Other than that defect -
and it certainly made no Dave Sim of him - this was a wonderful breath
of iconoclasm.

John Savard

Generation of Vipers was published in 1942, and I took his target as
the kind of diseased Victorian sentimentalization that was still
hanging around that late.

You may be thinking as well of The Disappearance, which was published
in 1951, but I would hestitate to think of Wylie on the basis of these
two books as mysoginist-in-general.
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