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chuckro“I mean, it’s not gay if it’s a dude raptor and a dude human, right?”
”Totally not gay.”
For those of you unaware of this nonsense: For several years, the Hugo Awards have been plagued by misogynist jerks who are trying to stack them, or discredit them, or just generally be assholes. (No one’s really clear on their goals besides “get attention by being dicks” at this point.) Among this year’s stunts was nominating an absurd and bizarre porn novelette* for a Hugo Award. Unfortunately for them, Chuck Tingle** took the gag and ran with it, up to and including announcing that Zoe Quinn (hated by this particular segment of internet idiots) would accept his award if he won.
As Jethrien votes for the Hugos, she got a free copy of this. I was too curious to resist.
This book, to its credit, includes a bunch of perfectly viable sci-fi tropes in order to lead into, well, a butt invasion by a space raptor. Though not “invasion”, really, as it’s totally consensual. The astronaut is totally into those “rock hard reptile abs.” Also, it’s not a raptor from space, it’s a raptor whose ancestors came from Earth, so it’s not a “space raptor” any more than the astronaut is a “space human”. And actually, if millions of years of evolution have occurred in the interim, it probably shouldn’t be called a raptor any more, as it would be well out of that species.
I’d say that maybe this should have been called, “Astronaut Dinosaur-Descendent Consensual Butt-Loving,” though I’d need to check if that’s already the title of one of Tingle’s other stories.
*Space raptors are only the tip of the iceberg, as there’s an entire series of dinosaur stories, unicorn stories, bigfoot stories; and assorted random objects such as jet planes, the state of California, and the concept of linear time.
**Tingle is an anonymous collective of authors, as far any anyone can tell.
Overall: This is hilarious. I suppose it would be hot if you were into gay man-on-sentient-dinosaur sex, too.
”Totally not gay.”
For those of you unaware of this nonsense: For several years, the Hugo Awards have been plagued by misogynist jerks who are trying to stack them, or discredit them, or just generally be assholes. (No one’s really clear on their goals besides “get attention by being dicks” at this point.) Among this year’s stunts was nominating an absurd and bizarre porn novelette* for a Hugo Award. Unfortunately for them, Chuck Tingle** took the gag and ran with it, up to and including announcing that Zoe Quinn (hated by this particular segment of internet idiots) would accept his award if he won.
As Jethrien votes for the Hugos, she got a free copy of this. I was too curious to resist.
This book, to its credit, includes a bunch of perfectly viable sci-fi tropes in order to lead into, well, a butt invasion by a space raptor. Though not “invasion”, really, as it’s totally consensual. The astronaut is totally into those “rock hard reptile abs.” Also, it’s not a raptor from space, it’s a raptor whose ancestors came from Earth, so it’s not a “space raptor” any more than the astronaut is a “space human”. And actually, if millions of years of evolution have occurred in the interim, it probably shouldn’t be called a raptor any more, as it would be well out of that species.
I’d say that maybe this should have been called, “Astronaut Dinosaur-Descendent Consensual Butt-Loving,” though I’d need to check if that’s already the title of one of Tingle’s other stories.
*Space raptors are only the tip of the iceberg, as there’s an entire series of dinosaur stories, unicorn stories, bigfoot stories; and assorted random objects such as jet planes, the state of California, and the concept of linear time.
**Tingle is an anonymous collective of authors, as far any anyone can tell.
Overall: This is hilarious. I suppose it would be hot if you were into gay man-on-sentient-dinosaur sex, too.
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Date: 2016-07-01 01:55 am (UTC)Markreadsstuff did one of Chuck Tingle's works, and it was hilarious, but I haven't read this one.