I remember seeing Harlan Ellison at a convention in the 1980s. Someone asked him about political correctness and he said that he had reservations about it rather than wholeheartedly embracing it as people expected him to. It was clear then that he was no friend of censorship. It seems to me that Joe Straczynski is dishonoring the memory of his former friend by using the anthology for promoting woke propaganda. I am very disappointed in Joe.
That he is so proud of leeching off of Ellison's name and work for his own nonsense is nauseating. This guy peaked in the '90s. He's done and needs to retire before he embarrasses himself and devalues whatever good he made further.
What I'm more curious about WRT that book is, for half a century Ellison was holding on to stories he got for that book, and not returning them to the authors who wanted to pull their stories back. Did THOSE stories finally get published, or did they get left on the floor to publish modern slop?
He's clutching at straws, the genre won't wait for him. It will either move past the wokisme or fall completely and be forgotten for a time.
It's worse than that. It's just a pathetic skin suit for JWS and his purposes. He's pushing his own visions as though they were Ellison's.
JWS shows himself to be a coward. A poltroon.
"Woke Visions" ... Ellison would not be pleased.
I remember seeing Harlan Ellison at a convention in the 1980s. Someone asked him about political correctness and he said that he had reservations about it rather than wholeheartedly embracing it as people expected him to. It was clear then that he was no friend of censorship. It seems to me that Joe Straczynski is dishonoring the memory of his former friend by using the anthology for promoting woke propaganda. I am very disappointed in Joe.
That he is so proud of leeching off of Ellison's name and work for his own nonsense is nauseating. This guy peaked in the '90s. He's done and needs to retire before he embarrasses himself and devalues whatever good he made further.
It's a shame that JMS went woke. Babylon 5 was the best science fiction show at the time.
What I'm more curious about WRT that book is, for half a century Ellison was holding on to stories he got for that book, and not returning them to the authors who wanted to pull their stories back. Did THOSE stories finally get published, or did they get left on the floor to publish modern slop?
He missed his chance to dump his shares in Woke, Inc. around October last year.