Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- Ursula K. LeGWINS!

[StormbringerAUS]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 21
Jemisin, N.K. 16
Kay, Guy Gavriel 20 + 1 =21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 19
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 9
Pratchett, Terry 21 - 2 = 19
Wolfe, Gene 19

 

[Grognerd]

I probably wouldn't think much in the way about them at all, to be honest. Hell, one of my favorite authors is regularly getting downvoted because she has initials in her name. I don't come to Survivor threads expecting sensible voting patterns, and neither should anyone else.

This is a lie from the abyssal realms of Orcus! I am NOT down-voting her because she has initials. Only because she uses them as her professional name rather than a real name. In 100 years they'll hate me for my initial-ist attitude!

 

[squibbles]

What do you say to all the protesters, 100 years from now, who are tearing down statues of Martin Luther King Jr. because he was a meat-eater?

What do you say to the people, 100 years from now, who are burning and banning the works of Le Guin, Jemisin, Alexander, Martin, Sanderson, Jordan, Kay, Tolkien, and Moorcock because they dared to depict meat-eating in their books or were meat-eaters themselves?

What do you say to those same people, 100 years from now, who look down on the people of our time and everything we wrought because we were largely meat-eaters?

Keep in mind, the modern vegetarian movement predates us by over 100 years, so no one alive today can say that they didn't know any better.

I would say:

1.) Changing which figures you choose to lionize with statues is eminently reasonable, take down all the statues you like
2.) Book burning/banning is never cool, stop with that nonsense
3.) I have to hedge on this one: it depends on the extent to which the methane emissions from factory farming contributed to their environmental and social problems. If everything is fine, I would smugly comment on the delicious steaks that they, in their vegetarian puritanism, are missing out on. If the future is an environmentally degraded Malthusian crisis, I would make a bunch of excuses for myself, and then awkwardly step away from the conversation.

I would also politely thank them for inventing the anti-aging hormones that allowed me to live in excess of 130 years and/or for reviving my body from its cryonic preservation in liquid nitrogen.

But... i feel like I have wandered off topic

 

[squibbles]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 21
Jemisin, N.K. 16
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 19
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 9
Pratchett, Terry 19-2=17
Wolfe, Gene 19+1=20

 

[bid]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 21
Jemisin, N.K. 16
Kay, Guy Gavriel 22
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 19
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 7
Pratchett, Terry 17
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Dausuul]

Alright. Then imagine someone came into this thread every day and announced that they were downvoting your favorite authors because they were vile meat-eaters. How would you view that person, and are you aware that other people might be viewing you that way right now?

I would view that person as a potentially useful weapon, and dig up evidence to suggest that the most carnivorous authors on the list are the ones who pose a threat to my favorites.

 

[Dausuul]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 16
Kay, Guy Gavriel 22
LeGuin, Ursula 22
Lynch, Scott 19
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 7
Pratchett, Terry 17
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Lanefan]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 22
LeGuin, Ursula 22
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 7
Pratchett, Terry 17
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Tallifer]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 22
LeGuin, Ursula 22
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 8
Pratchett, Terry 15
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[akr71]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 23
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 8
Pratchett, Terry 15
Wolfe, Gene 20