My Geek Streetcred Rises!

Posted on August 9, 2012 by John C Wright

I was mentioned honorably in a slashdot poll: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3035653&cid=40926711

I got two votes for being the most under-recognized SF author. Or maybe it is one guy voting twice. Or a dog with a keyboard. On the Internet, one never knows.

I am impressed with myself for being well recognized enough to be under-recognized.

Anonymous wrote: Each paragraph of The Golden Age has enough ideas packed in for a complete book by somebody else.

Thanks, Mom!

And now for a completely gratuitous picture of the Catwoman. I would not be the most under-appreciated SF author of the season if I mentioned her in my stories.

About John C Wright

John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
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8 Responses to My Geek Streetcred Rises!

  2. deiseach says:
    August 9, 2012 at 11:13 pm

    With recognition such as this, soon your works will be known to veritable tens of people!

    :-)

  3. robertjwizard says:
    August 10, 2012 at 7:28 am

    They have the two authors I would have mentioned if given a choice from a current author and one from ago; Mr. Wright (of course) and Fredric Brown.

    Anonymous was right about The Golden Age, that was dense. My favorite was the handling of the Silent Oecumene. It was extremely creepy.

  4. John Hutchins says:
    August 10, 2012 at 10:06 am

    You have already worked in a very close approximation to Batman so I imagine working in a very close approximation to Catwomen should be doable.

    • John C Wright says:
      August 10, 2012 at 11:04 am

      Ironically, Bill Finger was deliberately copying The Shadow when he invented Batman, and Anton Pendrake is my homage to The Shadow, so there are bound to be resemblances.

      • Scholar-at-Arms says:
        August 12, 2012 at 3:31 pm

        Mr. Wright,
        This is the second time I’ve seen this mentioned recently. I take it you side with Finger in the Kane-Finger creation debate? May I ask why? I know the controversy exists, but not enough to have an educated opinion on it.

        • John C Wright says:
          August 13, 2012 at 11:14 am

          No, I do not take a side, and I am not even aware of the arguments in the debate. I wrote the name without thinking about it, or looking it up, because that was the name that stuck in my memory.

          I also did not think there was any controversy about Batman being a rip-off (or homage) to The Shadow.

          • Scholar-at-Arms says:
            August 13, 2012 at 4:57 pm

            Fair enough. I know some geeks get all worked up over who “really” created Batman, some saying that Kane shoved Finger out of the spotlight. It’s rather akin to the Gygax-Arneson wars in Dungeons & Dragons fandom. I thought maybe you knew something I did not.

            I’m not familiar enough with the Shadow to think of Batman being a rip-off of the character. I thought that Anton Pendrake was an homage to the Green Hornet, for instance.

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