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If you go through the list of all the awardees of the World Fantasy Awards and subject them to the same criticisms, then I'm pretty sure they'd have to retroact
by photochemsyn 3y ago
If you go through the list of all the awardees of the World Fantasy Awards and subject them to the same criticisms, then I'm pretty sure they'd have to retroactively remove many of those awards because of the objectional content in some of those author's works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94Novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94No...
Also, in today's political climate, I'd guess Lovecraft's stance on religion is more controversial than the above issue.
- tptacek 3y agoI'm not interested, and neither is the author of the article, or, thankfully, most of this thread, which managed to be about Lovecraft's work.
- photochemsyn 3y agoI rather doubt that a devout believer in one of the Abrahamic religions (or any other) would have spent so much time and effort portraying a cosmic picture of human insignificance - a picture where humans are litte more than a tiny species of ants trying to survive in a world of Tyrannosaurus Rex, where a casual accidental stomp might just wipe us all out. Really, you don't think Lovecraft's diehard atheism contributed anything to his worldview or to his literary work?