Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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Peace and Harmony said:
$8,000 pinball machine (already broken), still can't groom the fucking dog.

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Not surprising that Frank remains a truly shitty writer, but is nonetheless published again by his semiliterate pal, the editor of Analog.

(1) A rag cannot be both oily and dried out.

(2) Rustling is a sound; you can't see it.

(3) ". . . claw clicking on metal . . ." So, a dog with one claw. Quite the attack beast.

(4) ". . . until a fang caught one of the robot's two necks." There's been no mention of any attempt to bite anything. Sounds like an accidental encounter. And one dog fang ain't gonna do much damage; biting usually involves two or more.

(5) ". . . squeezed out a couple molecules . . ." In English, that's a "couple of molecules."

(6) Having already established that the dog is mostly gray, calling it "the mostly gray dog" in a later reference is sheer hackwork.

Frank is a bad, bad writer. And Analog doesn't edit the crap it publishes, the staff being too lazy or incompetent to even notice a missing word in the second paragraph.
 
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Not surprising that Frank remains a truly shitty writer, but is nonetheless published again by his semiliterate pal, the editor of Analog.

(1) A rag cannot be both oily and dried out.

(2) Rustling is a sound; you can't see it.

(3) ". . . claw clicking on metal . . ." So, a dog with one claw. Quite the attack beast.

(4) ". . . until a fang caught one of the robot's two necks." There's been no mention of any attempt to bite anything. Sounds like an accidental encounter. And one dog fang ain't gonna do much damage; biting usually involves two or more.

(5) ". . . squeezed out a couple molecules . . ." In English, that's a "couple of molecules."

(6) Having already established that the dog is mostly gray, calling it "the mostly gray dog" in a later reference is sheer hackwork.

Frank is a bad, bad writer. And Analog doesn't edit the crap it publishes, being too lazy or incompetent to even notice a missing word in the second paragraph.
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That whole thing was a trainwreck. You hit the high points, but let's look.

A product of the "pare it to the bone then shave the bone" writing. We know jack or shit, we have no investment, we don't care. The dog is mostly in a flat gray space with some rocks. The descriptions are flat and empty. We had no idea why the genetic memory is important, why this sleeve is important. We can deduce it's from a human military uniform, but that's it.

The robots are obviously made of aluminum foil and tin cans, unable to withstand the teeth of dogs nor able to harm them. They have little to no description that is worthwhile to the reader. Dogs, living beings, are in a war of attrition with robots, which apparently are also capable of self-maintenance, getting power, and getting replacements, as this has been going on for at least two generations. This gives us an idea of a world overrun by robots.

In which case, the dogs are fucked.

The robots show no intelligence, just drift it stupidly.

The descriptions of the scenery are stupid. There's nothing about the scents and sounds, which would be vitally important to dogs.

The little dog denigrates the larger ones right off, showing the author suffers from Short Man Syndrome and has projected it into the book. Larger, in the animal kingdom, means more combat capable.

The whole "sashaying onto the robot's head" bit makes no damn sense. Jumping from rock to rock after it was said the dog was shitty at jumping? Are the rocks arranged like in a Mario Brother's game?

Just that 3/4 page excerpt shows you that someone got their dick sucked to print that. Unless the story's quality REALLY improves, it reads worse than fan fiction and experimental stuff on free sites by teenagers.

If this is what Analog is publishing compared to the past stuff, then I weep for modern Sci-Fi.
 
Jet Fuel Johnny said:
That whole thing was a trainwreck. You hit the high points, but let's look.

A product of the "pare it to the bone then shave the bone" writing. We know jack or shit, we have no investment, we don't care. The dog is mostly in a flat gray space with some rocks. The descriptions are flat and empty. We had no idea why the genetic memory is important, why this sleeve is important. We can deduce it's from a human military uniform, but that's it.

The robots are obviously made of aluminum foil and tin cans, unable to withstand the teeth of dogs nor able to harm them. They have little to no description that is worthwhile to the reader. Dogs, living beings, are in a war of attrition with robots, which apparently are also capable of self-maintenance, getting power, and getting replacements, as this has been going on for at least two generations. This gives us an idea of a world overrun by robots.

In which case, the dogs are fucked.

The robots show no intelligence, just drift it stupidly.

The descriptions of the scenery are stupid. There's nothing about the scents and sounds, which would be vitally important to dogs.

The little dog denigrates the larger ones right off, showing the author suffers from Short Man Syndrome and has projected it into the book. Larger, in the animal kingdom, means more combat capable.

The whole "sashaying onto the robot's head" bit makes no damn sense. Jumping from rock to rock after it was said the dog was shitty at jumping? Are the rocks arranged like in a Mario Brother's game?

Just that 3/4 page excerpt shows you that someone got their dick sucked to print that. Unless the story's quality REALLY improves, it reads worse than fan fiction and experimental stuff on free sites by teenagers.

If this is what Analog is publishing compared to the past stuff, then I weep for modern Sci-Fi.
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Reminder that Frank Wu has won multiple science fiction industry awards (though I don't think any for writing ... yet).
 
Mola Ram said:
Reminder that Frank Wu has won multiple science fiction industry awards (though I don't think any for writing ... yet).
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The fact that he hasn't been able to buy or schmooze his way into getting a token award through his various connections speaks to how remarkably bad his writing is.
 
Mola Ram said:
Reminder that Frank Wu has won multiple science fiction industry awards (though I don't think any for writing ... yet).
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Francis York Morgan said:
The fact that he hasn't been able to buy or schmooze his way into getting a token award through his speaks to how remarkably bad his writing is.
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Yeah, Frank's Hugos all all for fan art. He desperately wants to win a "real" Hugo or a Nebula, even though the woke crowd that has overrun fandom and the SFWA has devalued both to the point that they are worthless jokes.

His previous fiction has all been pure crap that has been carefully pumped full of unnecessary words until it qualified for the sparsely populated novella category. Despite this calculated attempt to game the system, he's never made the nomination list for a major award. I wonder if this piece is another novella.

ETA: Frank's 2016 piece In the Absence of Instructions to the Contrary was a short story that made the finalists list for the meaningless AnLab award.

ETA 2: It actually won. Probably due to ballot stuffing by Frank's pals at Analog.
 
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Yeah, Frank's Hugos all all for fan art. He desperately wants to win a "real" Hugo or a Nebula, even though the woke crowd that has overrun fandom and the SFWA has devalued both to the point that they are worthless jokes.

His previous fiction has all been pure crap that has been carefully pumped full of unnecessary words until it qualified for the sparsely populated novella category. Despite this calculated attempt to game the system, he's never made the nomination list for a major award. I wonder if this piece is another novella.

ETA: Frank's 2016 piece In the Absence of Instructions to the Contrary was a short story that made the finalists list for the meaningless AnLab award. It did not win
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I'd like to say that at least these SF awards have some modicum of standards, but then I think about how N.K. Jemisin has won multiple Hugos and that blows that theory out of the water. As long as you have the right progressive credentials and are as far from a straight white male as possible, you can put out any unreadable garbage and get oodles of praise for it. As a "straight" Asian male, Frank doesn't have enough oppression points to qualify; funnily enough, if John actually admitted he were a man, Frank would stand a better chance.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
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Listing all the great sci-fi writers of the past who got their start by being serialised in Analog is like being excited because you're on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Just because it once featured The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean it isn't a pathetic shadow of its former self now.
 
One misstep and it would be all over in the public eye for low-income black girl John Walker Flynt. He's had to behave to absolute perfection over the past several decades to achieve his current status.

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Am I to understand the title of Frank's story is Rocket!?!
as in he actually, concretely Mary Sue'd their dog ?
as in literary abstraction takes a back seat to narcissism?

That's so bad it ALMOST makes me want to read a Venesa Burranupakorn / Benjanun Sriduangkaew story about lesbian robots that hate white people just to cleanse the palate
 
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I'm honestly surprised there isn't a caption below that reads: "SHE TOLD ME I CAN WATCH!"

On a side note.....HOW did that pinball machine break already?


Peace and Harmony said:
As if John couldn't get any more irritating, he's really decided to glom onto this stupid "2/ Anyway" style of fucking tweet.

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Not even a plunge into Yellowstone's hot springs would make anyone who interacts with the snarling goblin clean.
That requires outright exorcism.
From every religion you can think of.
 
There's a crucial piece of safety gear missing from that photograph. But Frank and his assistant are geniuses who know everything, so I'm sure shortly after the photo was taken they put them under the car, of course. I'm not going to say what they are, because being geniuses who know everything, they don't need my help.
 
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