You definitely aren't. I gave a seminar about how misogynistic/pedophilic a lot of his stuff is.
Um, this topic is almost five years old...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Worth reviving, though: the borderline paedophilia, or perhaps ephebophilia, of Piers Anthony's writings is something that makes a lot of readers uneasy and which detracts from the core of undeniably outstanding sf this author has produced. And it's not as if it's there to make any sort of point - it seems purely gratuitous in the books where it appears. ("Firefly", anyone?)
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.
Could be an entry in Author Appeal or Creator Thumbprint?
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Keeper of Porn
Clipped this from the Rape as Drama entry:
- Later, in Blue Adept, as part of a game, Stile discovers that an opponent in the Game is a man-hater, pathologic about the idea of sex with a man, and he wins the competition by attempting to have sex with her in character within the performance, an act consired perfectly normal and acceptable in their society but which definitely would have been a coercive rape if she'd let him go through with it for the sake of winning the Game.
Stile wasn't trying to have sex with her, nor would it have been in character for the Game (they were performing a cooperative dance.) Stile had mesmerized himself to see Red as Lady Blue, so he'd react with true passion at performing a physically intimate dance with her. He was counting on Red's misandry to cause her to freak out and throw the match and it worked. No rape, unless you consider Stile moving in to kiss "Lady Blue" rape.
My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.
Lost in Space
Alright, I just did a slash and burn on this article. Why, you ask? Opinion and criticism masquerading as example text. Let's cover some specifics.
- Author Appeal: Can we note the elements without acting like prudish literary critics? Yes, please, thank you.
- Author Filibuster: End notes are not filibusters by definition — a filibuster must be in the story.
- Author Tract: You need to explain how, not just say that it is and expect us to take it on faith.
- Weirdness Coupon: This can only apply to characters in the story, not the author himself.
Also removed Fridge Logic, Fridge Brilliance, which don't belong on the main articles.
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Hmm. May I be the first to say that while I applaud Piers Anthony, who at his best is a genuinely gifted and talented sci-fi author ("Prosthro Plus", about an Earth dentist abducted into space by aliens and who needs to learn about alien oral ailments very quickly, is a brilliantly quirky classic), there are some aspects of his work that are uncomfortable?
Indeed, icky.
Lolicon" sums it up - he manifests a preoccupation with pre-teen and pubescent female sexuality that's really difficult to live with or even justify having on your bookshelves. It isn't just once; it crops up time and again and really gets you wondering about what goes on inside his head. I can't be the only person to have noticed this?
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