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Short Story - Amazing Man
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Author: u/embrodski *
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3aqrbu/short_story_amazing_man/
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Score: 0
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Created: 2015-06-22T19:17:32
Post:
Amazing Man I dashed off a little short story, inspired by the Sad Puppies Hugo Fiasco. I had fun writing it, I hope someone finds it enjoyable to read. I don't think it's Rational or Rationalist really, but it kinda waves in that direction in the few thousand words I had. For anyone who reads it... would it be approriate to post to http://rationalfiction.io/ ?
Comments:
u/Transfuturist [+8] Carthago delenda est. (an hour later)
Please leave politics out of the sub. This isn't rational or rationalist at all, it's political satire. This doesn't belong here.
u/embrodski [+4] (5 hours later)
Roger, my apoligies
u/BadGoyWithAGun [+8] (27 minutes later)
Proposed alternative title: The Adventures of Straw-Man.
For anyone who reads it... would it be approriate to post to http://rationalfiction.io/ ?
I don't see how. Did you seriously set out to write a rational protagonist, and end up with this?
u/embrodski [-3] (5 hours later)
No, I was just poking fun at some people I was annoyed at
u/callmebrotherg [+2] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (a day later)
Then why did you post it here?
For that matter, why'd you ask if it should be posted at the ratfic site when it isn't rational/ist?
u/embrodski [+2] (a day later)
Honestly, it because I'm still not entirely sure what rationalist fic is. I know we've been trying to define it for a while, and there's a lot of cases where it's very obvious that something fits in the genre. This story referenced a few items but it didn't have a rational protagonist or a rationalist storyline, and I was wondering if it would slip in as an edge case or be entirely out of bounds. When my view of the boundaries is very blurry I try to prod at the edges. This was an obvious failure, but it wasn't obvious to me before I asked.
u/nerdguy1138 [+1] GNU Terry Pratchett (7 hours later)
It was fun...
u/ArgentStonecutter [+2] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (16 minutes later)
So, would you call him a Dork Lord?
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (4 hours later)
Not seeing it.
u/None [+1] (a day later)
I didn't see that coming.