Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Washed up has-been sues small SF publisher

Make of this what you will. The actual complaint in all its deranged, petty glory is available here.

Apparently the washed-up has-been, who's been coasting his way through science fiction conventions for the past thirty years or so on the basis of a few well-regarded short stories and television episodes written in his youth, plus a couple of SF anthologies that he edited in the same period, has lately been reduced to groping women in public and filing frivolous lawsuits like this in a desperate attempt to stay in the limelight that he so pathetically craves.

One suspects that his real gripe with Fantagraphics is that they have published books such as The Book on the Edge of Forever, which describe in excruciatingly documented detail the incompetence and sociopathic egotism that has characterized his life and projects ever since the first, brief flowering of genuine ability that made his reputation.

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