M.A.R. Barker, author of Tekumel, also author of Neo-Nazi book?

[aramis erak]

Sooooh, he wasn't a Fascist, just a huge jerk...?

Inveterate leg-puller, according to some of the TSR staff. Prankster; often past the bounds of good taste. The guy whose jokes are unfun for the butt of the joke.

both LotR and Narnia were spawned from a wager between friends a d was Dianetics written as an experiment?

Dianetics was written (or so it's been claimed by Niven, Herbert, and Heinlein) on a group challenge- who could write the best SF about religion. L. Ron won...
L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics.
Heinlein wrote Job.
Asimov wrote Nightfall.
Herbert wrote Dune
Niven was the judge.

 

[Parmandur]

At this point, I think the issue that bothers me is that the Tekumel foundation knew about this for years and kept it under wraps...

More relevant and alarming...

 

[Rogerd1]

It was 31 years ago FFS, people change their opinions and beliefs in a shorter span. At this point who cares?

It is only relevant if he still holds such beliefs.

 

[Parmandur]

It was 31 years ago FFS, people change their opinions and beliefs in a shorter span. At this point who cares?

It is only relevant if he still holds such beliefs.

I mean, he's dead.

 

[Rogerd1]

I mean, he's dead.

Okay so why drag his name through the mud when he cannot even put his point of view forward.

This is just typical of this Cancel / Woke Culture naughty word.

 

[Fifth Element]

It was 31 years ago FFS, people change their opinions and beliefs in a shorter span. At this point who cares?

It is only relevant if he still holds such beliefs.

We now know he was on the editorial board of a Holocaust-denying "journal" for 13 years, until that journal ceased to exist. He clearly held horrible beliefs for a long time.

 

[Fifth Element]

Okay so why drag his name through the mud when he cannot even put his point of view forward.

He did put his point of view forward. That's the problem - his point of view. It was disgusting and harmful.

 

[Rogerd1]

We now know he was on the editorial board of a Holocaust-denying "journal" for 13 years, until that journal ceased to exist. He clearly held horrible beliefs for a long time.

And that board existed between what dates?

He did put his point of view forward. That's the problem - his point of view. It was disgusting and harmful.

And when did he put this point of view forward

 

[Ixal]

So how nazi is Serpent's Walk? I mean we had "Look who's back" (book and movie) which could be given a similar cover text but was a comedy and criticism on modern media and certainly not a glorification of Hitler.
Are tha Nazis in Serpent's Walk heroic protagonists? Parodies like in Starship Trooper? Bumbling Idiots that succeed because everyone is even dumber?

 

[Fifth Element]

And that board existed between what dates?

I believe it was 1989 to 2002. So it ended 73 years after his birth, but only 10 years before his death. But yeah, he probably changed his mind apparently?

And when did he put this point of view forward

When he wrote the Neo-Nazi book. And when he served on editorial board of a blatantly anti-Semitic publication.