Thursday, October 21, 2010

Big News in Fandom

SF3 has officially disinvited Elizabeth Moon as Guest of Honor for WisCON 35. The statement doesn't explain why, but I suspect there's hardly a soul in science fiction fandom that hasn't heard a whiff of Moon Fail.

2 comments:

tate hallaway said...

Saladin Ahmed posted a lovely comment about this on his LJ, but he also linked to the only response I've ever seen from Moon herself:

http://www.newsok.com/texas-author-un-invited-as-convention-guest-of-honor-over-remarks-on-islam/article/feed/204951

Douglas Hulick said...

Saladin Ahmed's LJ post can be found at:

http://saladinahmed.livejournal.com/14108.html