[CiaranMcNulty]

It's sort of extraordinary that the conclusion of the piece is that the book was published and he was paid in full

Poor guy

[rippercushions]

It was successfully cancelled at one publisher, he was just lucky/famous enough to find another. How many people don't get a second chance?

[defrost]

> How many people don't get a second chance?

The vast majority of people attempting to get published during the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" for starters.

Even reading the autobiographical writings of those that became big names you'll find a seemingly endless runway of rejection before liftoff, cancelled acceptances, demands for rewrites, multiple publisher approaches, etc.

One publisher getting cold feet isn't the end of the world, ask any writer that's made it.

[arrrg]

Do you have a right to be published?

Free association is also an important liberal right.

[anonymousiam]

RTFA. He had a contract, which the publisher asked him to cancel. He wanted a transparent explanation for the reasoning behind the cancellation, and never got one. The correspondence was well considered and polite, but the obvious conclusion is that the publisher caved to the woke mob, and didn't want to admit it.

[arrrg]

What does caving to the woke mob even mean?

This is just such a weird perspective.

[aredox]

Well, if you look closer, almost none. Controversy sells, and you can become a guest speaker on the "help! In being cancelled!" tour.

[matt_daemon]

Right... hard to take this guy's diatribe seriously.

[drekipus]

It's worth it, we need to put hurdles in front of people. Really make sure everything is at least threatened a tiny bit, even if they do make it out the other end unscathed.

Then we can know that their work is superior, probably due to their privilege.

Or maybe it would've been better to destroy his work completely? Then the world will be better off for it.

Am I doing it right?