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  Worldcon Members who are looking forward to the forthcoming Hugo Voter Packet – which traditionally contains as many of the works nominated for a Hugo Award as possible so that all voters can review the nominees in a unified set of documents – will notice a special warning from MidAmeriCon II in this year’s edition […]

Full Series Part I – Pedophilia in Science Fiction – Introduction Part II – The Vocal Enablers Part III – Leaders in Silence Part IV -The Samuel R. Delany Problem Part V – The Victims Supplement I – Defending Your Children: Understanding the Mindset and Tactics of a Pedophile Supplement II – The Enablers in […]

Full Series Part I – Pedophilia in Science Fiction – Introduction Part II – The Vocal Enablers Part III – Leaders in Silence Part IV -The Samuel R. Delany Problem Part V – The Victims Supplement I – Defending Your Children: Understanding the Mindset and Tactics of a Pedophile Supplement II – The Enablers in […]

WARNING: This post deals seriously with child sexual abuse  in science fiction and extensively quotes from the work of a science fiction author who endorses, and is believed to have engaged in, criminally abusive sexual behavior. Not for the faint of heart; contains vulgarities, obscenities, and descriptions of extremely deviant and disgusting behavior. This is […]

Considering how rampant the abuse has been historically and how leaders in the science fiction community have gone out of their way to enable and encourage the abusers, I can’t possibly recommend that you expose children in your care to science fiction conventions or other events where fans of science fiction might gather to form […]

Defining the “Safe Space” Group silence can be very noisy. A useful tactic in a mass cover-up of unpleasantness is for the participants to become as loud as possible…about something else. Ed Kramer’s molestation news was generating all sorts of media attention in 2013, but when John Scalzi, president of the SFWA, launched his personal […]

In Part 1, it was established that the science fiction community has a serious, half-century long problem with pedophilia that ranges from its outlying fans to its inner circle. Even two of the “Big Three” have major scandals associated with their names. Because it is estimated that 60% of child sexual abuse offenders are acquaintances, […]

SPECIAL NOTE (5/26/2016): For those visitors looking for the fully compiled edition of this post as it had been intended to appear in the Hugo Packet, download the following PDF: Safe Space as Rape Room – Banned from the Hugo Packet version- [PDF] For the full story on the exclusion of this Hugo Award-nominated work from the […]

I recently saw Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. I loved it, it was a great big multi-colored thrill ride of a film, pretty much non-stop from the ELO-fueled dance/combat sequence that opens the movie to the final post-credits sequence. (You don’t have to be told not to leave until the ushers physically drag you out, […]