You’re a decent person. You really are. Oh, sure, you have some bad habits, some irritating beliefs, some things you do that get on the nerves on people around you. But by all the low bars, you’re a decent person. You don’t molest children. You don’t attack people with broken bottles. You don’t set bombs. […]
I have seen the “How come I never heard of you?” slammer used against many writers of note over the years, most recently against Barry Malzberg, Pat Cadigan, and David Gerrold. It is usually used as a political slammer: to wit, not all of your political beliefs march in lockstep with all of mine, therefore […]
