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shadowkat1. I picked up Carter and Lovecraft... for the below description...
Yeah, it would have pissed off Lovecraft, who was a white asshole of his time, in other words, racist and sexist. White male pulp novelists of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and noir detective fiction were as a general rule sexist and racist assholes. I know, I've read them. It's also a problem in the comic book genre and the romance genre.
That's not to say there aren't writers out there who aren't like this -- there are. You just have to read a lot of the bigoted ones to find them. I personally blame the publishing houses and ahem, the fandom. (SEE LJ circa 2004 big sci-fi fandom kerfuffle along with the HUGO Puppy kerfuffle.)
2. Netflix refuses to tell us when the big shows are premiering on it -- Lucifer, Stranger Things, Crown, basically the ones that are highly anticipated. Damn them.
I love this series, it’s noir crime fiction with a Lovecraftian twist. And the author made Lovecraft’s descendant a black woman as that would have really, really pissed him off.
The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.
Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he’s a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he’s never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn’t want a new boss.
She’s Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn’t want to be involved, he’s beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As he reluctantly investigates, he discovers that Lovecraft’s tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted inheritance.
Yeah, it would have pissed off Lovecraft, who was a white asshole of his time, in other words, racist and sexist. White male pulp novelists of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and noir detective fiction were as a general rule sexist and racist assholes. I know, I've read them. It's also a problem in the comic book genre and the romance genre.
That's not to say there aren't writers out there who aren't like this -- there are. You just have to read a lot of the bigoted ones to find them. I personally blame the publishing houses and ahem, the fandom. (SEE LJ circa 2004 big sci-fi fandom kerfuffle along with the HUGO Puppy kerfuffle.)
2. Netflix refuses to tell us when the big shows are premiering on it -- Lucifer, Stranger Things, Crown, basically the ones that are highly anticipated. Damn them.
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