{"id":1601,"date":"2008-07-31T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2008-07-31T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:11:15","slug":"bigotry-leads-to-a-cool-new-story-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Bigotry Leads to a Cool New Story Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

In other SFF news, some time ago William Sanders, editor of the SFF webzine Helix<\/i>, wrote a rejection letter in which he ranted about “sheet heads”<\/a>. People rightly pointed out that Sanders was being a racist dick, and he responded with grace and class: when Yoon Ha Lee asked him to remove her story from the Helix<\/i> archives, he did so, telling Yoon that her story didn’t make sense anyway, he’d only bought it to fill some quota in his head<\/a>, and the story’s grapes were probably sour anyway. (Here’s the full text of his response<\/a>) He also pulled other authors’ stories at their request, replacing them with a page that said “STORY DELETED AT AUTHOR’S PANTIWADULOUS REQUEST”<\/a>. Oh, and then he explained that further story removals would cost the author $40<\/a>, before finally fully rescinding that offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, sometimes good things come out of bad events. A group of writers published by Helix<\/i> created Transcriptase<\/i><\/a>, which now hosts those stories pulled from Helix<\/i>. So why not spend your lunch break reading some good short fiction<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other SFF news, some time ago William Sanders, editor of the SFF webzine Helix, wrote a rejection letter in which he ranted about “sheet heads”. People rightly pointed out that Sanders was being a racist dick, and he responded with grace and class: when Yoon Ha Lee asked him to remove her story from … Continue reading Bigotry Leads to a Cool New Story Site<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t