Parts A and B look reasonable enough, but I have my doubts about C. Boy does Elias draw great thuggish faces though.
UPDATE: Nick Mamatas explains why this is actually a reasonable way to keep somebody quiet:
Articles with the Tag Nick Mamatas
Get Nick Mamatas a hugo: All You Need is Kill
Nick “proven noticable” Mamatas is up for the Best Editor, Long Form Hugo for his work on the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction. James Nicoll has decided to campaign for him, by reviewing all Haikasoru books he can lay his hands on. He started with All You Need Is Kill, coincidently the only Haikasoru book I’ve read myself, so I thought to help out by reposting the review f it I did last year at my booklog:
All You Need Is KILL
Hiroshi Sakurazaka & Alexander O. Smith (translator)
381 pages
published in 2004
James Nicoll was casting about for science fiction books to read one day last week and got pointed in the direction of Haikasoru Books, a newish line of translated Japanese science fiction, found something to his liking and posted about it, as well as a poll on which Haikasoru title to read next. All of which explains why I was pulled towards the cover of All You Need is Kill when I saw it in a local bookstore. Since James liked the Haikasoru that he got and I trust his taste, that was enough reason for me to take a chance on this. I wasn’t disappointed.
What I got with All You Need is KILL is a fast paced, short novel (only 200 pages) that takes two old, familiar science fiction concepts and mashes them up into something new: Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day. Earth has been invaded by the alien Mimics, seemingly non-sapient but still with the ability to learn from their mistakes and most of the poorer part of the world has been overrun already. Keiji Kiriya is just one recruit given a short training, shoved into a battlesuit called a Jacket, sent out to defend Japan from the Mimics then dying in his first battle — only to wake up in his bunk the day before.
Nick Mamatas not noticable — further decline of Wikipedia
Nick Mamatas’ entry on Wikipedia is considered for deletion:
A lack of reliable third part sources necessary for WP:BLP. Also, publications don’t seem notable and awards are regional, not enough to distinguish person as notable.
This is a writer who has written several science fiction and horror novels, been published in America as well as several European countries (Germany and Italy) and is the editor for the well received Haikasoru line of Japanese science fiction books For Viz Publications. He has received favourable critical reception for both his writing and his editing work, including several Bram Stoker Award nominations, a World Fantasy Award nomination, a few Hugo Award nominations, including one this year for Best Editor, long form and so on and so forth. In the greater scheme of things he may just be a minor writer at the moment working in still somewhat disreputable genres, but he’s clearly influential enough and noticed enough by his peers to be worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, with plenty of material out there to be able to write a reasonable encyclopedia entry about him. Everything therefore in the original argument of why Mamatas needs to be removed from Wikipedia is wrong, which is par for the course for a lot of deletions.
Searching for Wikipedia on this very blog will show a lot of other examples of this sort of heavyhanded and dumb “cleansing” of Wikipedia, usually aimed at subjects not traditionally part of an encyclopedia. But that’s the whole point of why Wikipedia can be better than any traditional encyclopedia, because it has room for any subject of worth to be included, no matter how obscure. It can be a generalist encyclopedia and go into enormous depth on every subject imaginable. A certain kind of Wikipedia editor doesn’t get this however and feels the need to patrol the project for subjects and articles they deem unworthy of inclusion because, umm well, they clutter up the place?
Hence absurdities like this, where somebody who clearly hasn’t the faintest idea about the subject he’s judging thinks “Nick Mamatas” needs to be deleted because his publications aren’t noticable and his awards, including the World Fantasy Award nomination are purely regional…
Wait, Dickens did what?
Dickens himself took a swing at the mystery genre with his 1870 novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and perhaps laid the groundwork for some of our greatest film mysteries, particularly some of the open-ended films of Alfred Hitchcock. Drood, you see, is left unresolved, the case unfinished, allowing (perhaps forcing) readers to imagine the ending, constructing a resolution that fits the facts as they interpreted them. It was a risky literary trick and few save Dickens could have pulled it off.
If the rest of the research in Thrill-Ride: The Dark World of Mysteries and Thrillers is as good as this titbit, remind me not to read it. Remind me also not to piss off Nick Mamatas with do my research for me type questions…