Ever since Moira Greyland released the book detailing just how her mother, Science Fiction legend and feminist icon Marion Zimmer Bradley sexually abused her — and used the convention circuit to allow her friends to do the same, I’ve posted warning about the pedophilia that’s been normalized within the mainstream science fiction community.
In hindsight, I’ve seen it in the works. There’s a lot of books with young children in it with gratuitous nudity scenes in the “classics” and beyond. We know full well about SFWA Grandmaster Samuel Delaney’s very vocal thoughts on the subject matter (SFWA has still not disavowed him). There are so many examples it’s nauseating.
A new one came out today, with Gerrad Jones, a former writer for Marvel and DC Comics admitting guilt to child pornography.
Too many of the top publishing organizations have harbored and possibly still are harboring known pedophiles within their ranks. It’s systemic throughout the fiction, and it needs to stop. SFWA actually cited in their reason for banning me for their club, despite my qualifying, that it was because I make articles speaking out against pedophilia.
More people need to ask why these science fiction, fantasy, and comics publishers keep hiring people like this to produce their work. We need to take action to protect our children from this normalized group of sickos. Demand that SFWA, Tor, Marvel, DC and others unequivocally condemn pedophilia. They are not doing enough to put a stop to this epidemic, and their lack of action enables monsters.
It’s difficult to understand why anybody would defend this sort of thing.
Patrick s Tomlinson, he writes teen sci fi books, definitely suspect.
Another Tor author worth checking into is Patrick S. Tomlinson. Some of the stuff I’ve read about him is really disturbing
http://www.castaliahouse.com/safe-space-as-rape-room-science-fiction-culture-and-childhoods-end-part-1-of-5/#comment-266024
Would you mind posting a link to what you read about him?
“There’s a lot of books with young children in it with gratuitous nudity scenes in the “classics” and beyond.”
I guess that means Orson Scott Card is a pedophile, according to your standards. Remember the shower scene in Ender’s Game?
Have you read Hart’s Hope, Wyrms, or Songmaster? Because they all have some *incredibly* problematic sexualization of young children.
No I haven’t. Sounds like I should avoid them.
Thank You for doing the Lords work. It seems Pedophilia and some elements of Sci Fi fandom have been hand in hand for decades. From Walter Breen to a few public cases recently, the issue needs to be tackled head on. Also any author that calls people protesting pedophilia and pedophiles “Nazis” obviously has something to hide in my opinion. Especially if they’re a pig faced liar like a certain schlock writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who’s name may rhyme with “Fat Somlinson”. Whom called you a Nazi for protesting the depiction of pedophilia at WorldCon.
Thank you for bgeing here John!