Well, dropping my two cents in while on break...
I like quite a few of Baen Books offerings - though sometimes I have to turn off some of my triggers; not the Republican/Democrat triggers since I don't live in the States and we don't have that sort of insanity here, just a different sort.
Ringo's pretty out there but I pretty much don't take him seriously;he won Romance Novelist of the Year with Choosers of the Slain - which is a pretty good Carrot Glace self-insertion military fanfic, which is not a knock on anyone's part - those two are pretty fun people to read.
Anyway, I read his stuff, yes - even the SS book, yes that one, and wasn't that much offended. But like I said I turn my triggers off and read it for what it is: fiction that's supposed to put food on his table and hopefully entertain the reader, with occasional contextual and subtextual diatribes and tirades. Besides if I really don't like a book, I stop reading and sell it off on the second-hand market and not have it pollute my library.
Pretty much nothing gets to me - well, except for Harry Turtledove but that's another kettle of fish and that's why I don't buy his new books anymore. ^_^
Anyway maybe you should relocate this to the Politics forum since Ringo is pretty political from what I read of of the reactions of his work.
I like quite a few of Baen Books offerings - though sometimes I have to turn off some of my triggers; not the Republican/Democrat triggers since I don't live in the States and we don't have that sort of insanity here, just a different sort.
Ringo's pretty out there but I pretty much don't take him seriously;he won Romance Novelist of the Year with Choosers of the Slain - which is a pretty good Carrot Glace self-insertion military fanfic, which is not a knock on anyone's part - those two are pretty fun people to read.
Anyway, I read his stuff, yes - even the SS book, yes that one, and wasn't that much offended. But like I said I turn my triggers off and read it for what it is: fiction that's supposed to put food on his table and hopefully entertain the reader, with occasional contextual and subtextual diatribes and tirades. Besides if I really don't like a book, I stop reading and sell it off on the second-hand market and not have it pollute my library.
Pretty much nothing gets to me - well, except for Harry Turtledove but that's another kettle of fish and that's why I don't buy his new books anymore. ^_^
Anyway maybe you should relocate this to the Politics forum since Ringo is pretty political from what I read of of the reactions of his work.