closing the book.

[glass_icarus]

Discovered just now [re: Thirteenth Child], exactly where my limits are:

The *plan* is for it to be a "settling the frontier" book, only without Indians (because I really hate both the older Indians-as-savages viewpoint that was common in that sort of book, *and* the modern Indians-as-gentle-ecologists viewpoint that seems to be so popular lately, and this seems the best way of eliminating the problem, plus it'll let me play with all sorts of cool megafauna). I'm not looking for wildly divergent history, because if it goes too far afield I won't get the right feel.

So. Goodbye, Patricia C. Wrede. Your stories were wonderful, but now you have tainted them for me forever. I'm not strong enough or fierce enough for this, so I'm ending our conversation today.

Comments

[instantramen]

...Right. Because yet another fantasy centered exclusively around white people is so much more interesting than doing a little extra research in order to find a middle ground you can work with.

Hi, by the way. Subscribed recently since we have some similar interests, and I seem to be getting an education in Writers Who Suck. Timing!

[glass_icarus]

call me sentimental- thanks to certain childhood favorites of mine, i was still willing to give this piece of apparent fail a shot, but then someone found this little tidbit, and. yeah. i've been lucky so far; at least for the first few months of Racefail'09 the authors embroiled in the 'fail were people i hadn't actually read and liked. i'd had hopes for Wrede, but... it's time to cut my losses. :\

... hi! and ack for timing; it isn't always this depressing hereabouts, i promise!

[instantramen]

I know how the sentimentality thing can be, even though it's in more of a "why did you have to get so bad/boringly predictable?" way since I don't think I've actually read anyone yet involved in Racefail '09. At least if Wrede is dead to your library you have a little more time to discover people who aren't afraid of a little social awareness.

Don't worry about it! Depressing things make everything more balanced, even if they suck at the time. :)

[avendya]

... Why?

[avendya]

I should note that question was not directed at you, but Pat Wrede.

[glass_icarus]

*g* yeah, i figured. it's clean break time; i won't be rereading her stuff again.

[bethbethbeth]

I saw that quote in the Making Light thread [Tor thread?] just before going to teach a class and...god. I mean, if she'd written out a whole people without planning it, well...that's one thing. Still utterly Fail-tastic, but potentially redeemable once she woke up and realized what she'd done. However, to know she actually thought about it and went "oh, you know...it's too much trouble to write Native Americans at all!" is so much worse.

[glass_icarus]

yes, this. *sigh*

(am currently cheering myself up with a warmer, fuzzier White House, though- how's that for a statement?)