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 {{http://i.imgur.com/7Gladpj.jpg|Larry Correia}}//Photo taken by [[http://www.johndbrown.com/i-spent-7-days-in-a-car-with-larry-correia-international-lord-of-hate-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/|John D. Brown]]// {{http://i.imgur.com/7Gladpj.jpg|Larry Correia}}//Photo taken by [[http://www.johndbrown.com/i-spent-7-days-in-a-car-with-larry-correia-international-lord-of-hate-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/|John D. Brown]]//
  
-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Correia|Larry Correia]] is a former accountant, gun salesman, and firearms instructor who currently writes fiction full-time. He is primarily known to meme as the instigator of the [[w/page/95875079/Hugopocalypse|Hugopocalypse]], an event in which several right-wing authors put together a slate of works and then used bloc voting to fill up the 2015 Hugo Awards ballot with slate nominees. However, Correia has also participated in several other fandom wanks and imbroglios.+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Correia|Larry Correia]] is a former accountant, gun salesman, and firearms instructor who currently writes fiction full-time. He is primarily known to meme as the instigator of the [[Hugopocalypse]], an event in which several right-wing authors put together a slate of works and then used bloc voting to fill up the 2015 Hugo Awards ballot with slate nominees. However, Correia has also participated in several other fandom wanks and imbroglios.
  
 **Fiction** **Fiction**
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 Unfortunately for him, this effort [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/04/01/the-sad-puppies-hugo-campaign-sorta-successful-for-everybody-but-me/|failed]] and his novel did not reach the final ballot. Unfortunately for him, this effort [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/04/01/the-sad-puppies-hugo-campaign-sorta-successful-for-everybody-but-me/|failed]] and his novel did not reach the final ballot.
  
-Undaunted, Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/01/14/sad-puppies-2-the-illustrated-edition/|tried again]] in 2014 with Sad Puppies 2. This time, in addition to [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/03/25/my-hugo-slate/|recommending]] his own //Warbound// (the 3rd book in his Grimnoir Chronicles series), he recommended several other works by his conservative friends. These included two stories by [[w/page/98952121/Brad%20Torgersen|Brad Torgersen]], who would go on to run Sad Puppies 3, and one by right-wing fanatic [[w/page/81478085/Vox%20Day|Vox Day]]. He nominated twelve works and authors in total, and while a few were ruled ineligible due to a vetting screw-up, several [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/20/a-blow-has-been-struck-against-puppy-related-sadness/|got on the]] ballot. But yet again, the Puppies were denied Hugos; they were [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/08/18/hugo-aftermath-post/|crushed]] in the final vote, and non-Puppy works won all the awards. Vox Day's execrable //Opera Vita Aeterna// even finished behind 'No Award.'+Undaunted, Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/01/14/sad-puppies-2-the-illustrated-edition/|tried again]] in 2014 with Sad Puppies 2. This time, in addition to [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/03/25/my-hugo-slate/|recommending]] his own //Warbound// (the 3rd book in his Grimnoir Chronicles series), he recommended several other works by his conservative friends. These included two stories by [[brad-Torgersen|Brad Torgersen]], who would go on to run Sad Puppies 3, and one by right-wing fanatic [[vox-day|Vox Day]]. He nominated twelve works and authors in total, and while a few were ruled ineligible due to a vetting screw-up, several [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/20/a-blow-has-been-struck-against-puppy-related-sadness/|got on the]] ballot. But yet again, the Puppies were denied Hugos; they were [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/08/18/hugo-aftermath-post/|crushed]] in the final vote, and non-Puppy works won all the awards. Vox Day's execrable //Opera Vita Aeterna// even finished behind 'No Award.'
  
 Author John Scalzi [[http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/08/17/get-out-your-bingo-card/|noted]] how bad of a decision it was to put Day's terrible work on the ballot, thereby tying Correia's reputation with Day. ([[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/100563.html?thread=496923859#cmt49692|Meme]]). Author John Scalzi [[http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/08/17/get-out-your-bingo-card/|noted]] how bad of a decision it was to put Day's terrible work on the ballot, thereby tying Correia's reputation with Day. ([[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/100563.html?thread=496923859#cmt49692|Meme]]).
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 **Sad Puppies 3 and the Hugopocalypse** **Sad Puppies 3 and the Hugopocalypse**
  
-In 2015, Torgersen took over the Sad Puppies campaign while Correia took a backseat--though his novel //Monster Hunter Nemesis// (the 5th book in his Monster Hunter series) was on [[http://file770.com/?p=21708|both]] the Sad Puppies slate and the companion Rabid Puppies slate (the latter produced by Vox Day). Though it made the ballot, Correia withdrew it to demonstrate that the campaign was not (as many claimed) just a vehicle for him to get a Hugo, but was rather about the broader goal of giving right-wing authors a fair shot in the awards. Despite this gesture, several dozen slate works [[http://file770.com/?p=21708|made]] the ballot, resulting in the majority of non-slate nominees being pushed off (Meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/129641.html?thread=672664937#cmt672664937|discussion]] when rumors began to swirl about the Puppy sweep, [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/130658.html?thread=679317858#cmt679317858|after]] the sweep was basically confirmed by insiders, and [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131336.html?thread=683444488#cmt683444488|after]] the ballot was announced).+In 2015, Torgersen took over the Sad Puppies campaign while Correia took a backseat--though his novel //Monster Hunter Nemesis// (the 5th book in his Monster Hunter series) was on [[http://file770.com/?p=21708|both]] the Sad Puppies slate and the companion Rabid Puppies slate (the latter produced by Vox Day). Though it made the ballot, Correia withdrew it to demonstrate that the campaign was not (as many claimed) just a vehicle for him to get a Hugo, but was rather about the broader goal of giving right-wing authors a fair shot in the awards. Despite this gesture, several dozen slate works [[http://file770.com/?p=21708|made]] the ballot, resulting in the majority of non-slate nominees being pushed off (Meme [[https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/129641.html?thread=672664937#cmt672664937|discussion]] when rumors began to swirl about the Puppy sweep, [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/130658.html?thread=679317858#cmt679317858|after]] the sweep was basically confirmed by insiders, and [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131336.html?thread=683444488#cmt683444488|after]] the ballot was announced).
  
 This did not, however, mean that Correia was no longer involved in the campaign. Far from it: when George R. R. Martin wrote a [[http://grrm.livejournal.com/417521.html|long post]] questioning Correia's claim that the Hugos were politically biased, Correia wrote a [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/|long post]] of his own arguing that the Hugos were under the sway of a corrupt leftist cabal and that the Puppies were trying to save them from themselves. Martin responded (at great length), and Correia issued yet another rejoinder, [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/14/george-r-r-martin-responds/|insisting]] that the Puppies were fighting a legitimate problem of bias in the Hugos awards. Correia was also [[http://www.donotlink.com/framed?632111|interviewed]] by Breitbart, a right-wing news site, about the Puppies, and he [[https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/993978760613053|threatened]] to sue Entertainment Weekly when they wrote about the Puppies and said they were just trying to boost white male authors. This latter effort didn't work out. (Meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131587.html?thread=685912323#cmt68591|mockery]] of Correia's lawsuit threat). This did not, however, mean that Correia was no longer involved in the campaign. Far from it: when George R. R. Martin wrote a [[http://grrm.livejournal.com/417521.html|long post]] questioning Correia's claim that the Hugos were politically biased, Correia wrote a [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/|long post]] of his own arguing that the Hugos were under the sway of a corrupt leftist cabal and that the Puppies were trying to save them from themselves. Martin responded (at great length), and Correia issued yet another rejoinder, [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/14/george-r-r-martin-responds/|insisting]] that the Puppies were fighting a legitimate problem of bias in the Hugos awards. Correia was also [[http://www.donotlink.com/framed?632111|interviewed]] by Breitbart, a right-wing news site, about the Puppies, and he [[https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/993978760613053|threatened]] to sue Entertainment Weekly when they wrote about the Puppies and said they were just trying to boost white male authors. This latter effort didn't work out. (Meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131587.html?thread=685912323#cmt68591|mockery]] of Correia's lawsuit threat).
  
-Later, Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/16/im-not-vox-day/|tried]] to separate himself from [[w/page/81478085/Vox%20Day|Vox Day]] , insisting that the Rabid Puppy slate was unrelated to his and Torgersen's Sad Puppies effort. Author John Scalzi [[http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/04/20/keeping-up-with-the-hugos-42015/|called this out]] for the nonsense it was, noting that Correia and Torgersen had cheerfully worked with Day until he became politically inconvenient. He also wrote that the entire purpose of the Puppies was Correia being upset at losing the Campbell in 2011:+Later, Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/16/im-not-vox-day/|tried]] to separate himself from [[vox-day|Vox Day]] , insisting that the Rabid Puppy slate was unrelated to his and Torgersen's Sad Puppies effort. Author John Scalzi [[http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/04/20/keeping-up-with-the-hugos-42015/|called this out]] for the nonsense it was, noting that Correia and Torgersen had cheerfully worked with Day until he became politically inconvenient. He also wrote that the entire purpose of the Puppies was Correia being upset at losing the Campbell in 2011:
  
 //Also, can we please now stop pretending that this whole Puppy nonsense began for any other reason than that once upon a time, Larry Correia thought he was going to win an award and was super pissed he didn’t, and decided that the reason he didn’t had to be a terrible, awful conspiracy against people just like him (a conservative! Writing “fun” fiction!), as opposed to, oh, the voters deciding they just plain liked something and someone else better? Can we stop pretending that a fellow who practically begs people to nominate his work three years running, hiding the begging behind an oh-so-thin veil of “let’s stick it to the SJWs!” doesn’t desperately crave the external validation that he thinks the award will bring? Can we stop pretending that this is anything other than a grown up child stomping his feet, screaming look at me, look at me, loooook at meeeeee? Because, come on, folks. We’re well past the point of genteel here. Let’s call it for what it is.// //Also, can we please now stop pretending that this whole Puppy nonsense began for any other reason than that once upon a time, Larry Correia thought he was going to win an award and was super pissed he didn’t, and decided that the reason he didn’t had to be a terrible, awful conspiracy against people just like him (a conservative! Writing “fun” fiction!), as opposed to, oh, the voters deciding they just plain liked something and someone else better? Can we stop pretending that a fellow who practically begs people to nominate his work three years running, hiding the begging behind an oh-so-thin veil of “let’s stick it to the SJWs!” doesn’t desperately crave the external validation that he thinks the award will bring? Can we stop pretending that this is anything other than a grown up child stomping his feet, screaming look at me, look at me, loooook at meeeeee? Because, come on, folks. We’re well past the point of genteel here. Let’s call it for what it is.//
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 Correia is a fierce advocate against gun control, going so far as to argue after the Sandy Hook massacre that armed teachers is the best way to stop school shooting, and also that guns are the only way to stop hate crimes and other crimes against marginalized individuals (e.g., the 'rape wouldn't be a problem if all the women were packing heat' argument.) See his arguments [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/|here]] and [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/09/18/fisking-an-ignorant-gun-control-editorial/|here]]. Many people have rebutted his arguments; see [[https://mfinmoderation.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/a-response-to-larry-correia-on-gun-control/|here]] for an example. Correia is a fierce advocate against gun control, going so far as to argue after the Sandy Hook massacre that armed teachers is the best way to stop school shooting, and also that guns are the only way to stop hate crimes and other crimes against marginalized individuals (e.g., the 'rape wouldn't be a problem if all the women were packing heat' argument.) See his arguments [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/|here]] and [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/09/18/fisking-an-ignorant-gun-control-editorial/|here]]. Many people have rebutted his arguments; see [[https://mfinmoderation.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/a-response-to-larry-correia-on-gun-control/|here]] for an example.
  
-In early 2014, [[w/page/46349159/Winterfox|Winterfox]]-stan Alex Dally Macfarlane wrote a [[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/post-binary-gender-in-sf-introduction|post]] for tor.com arguing that science fiction should be more representative of people who do not fit the gender binary. Correia felt this was liberal nonsense and [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/ending-binary-gender-in-fiction-or-how-to-murder-your-writing-career/|wrote]] a 4000-word blog post stating that Macfarlane was demanding quotas, whereas real writers should only care about good stories and should include the characters needed for those stories, so if a given story doesn't happen to need a trans character, there shouldn't be any. An excerpt:+In early 2014, [[Winterfox]]-stan Alex Dally Macfarlane wrote a [[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/post-binary-gender-in-sf-introduction|post]] for tor.com arguing that science fiction should be more representative of people who do not fit the gender binary. Correia felt this was liberal nonsense and [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/ending-binary-gender-in-fiction-or-how-to-murder-your-writing-career/|wrote]] a 4000-word blog post stating that Macfarlane was demanding quotas, whereas real writers should only care about good stories and should include the characters needed for those stories, so if a given story doesn't happen to need a trans character, there shouldn't be any. An excerpt:
  
 //Okay, so I write a book, and let’s say that it has 20 characters in it. What is the acceptable percentage of them that should be transgender? How many boxes must I check in order to salve a blogger’s liberal angst? Let’s see… Only like 1 in 50,000 people have sex changes performed. So at 20 characters a book… If I have one character who has had a sex change show up every 2,500 books I write, I’d be statistically accurate.// //Okay, so I write a book, and let’s say that it has 20 characters in it. What is the acceptable percentage of them that should be transgender? How many boxes must I check in order to salve a blogger’s liberal angst? Let’s see… Only like 1 in 50,000 people have sex changes performed. So at 20 characters a book… If I have one character who has had a sex change show up every 2,500 books I write, I’d be statistically accurate.//
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 Later, another writer named Damien G. Walter [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/science-fiction-needs-to-reflect-queer-fluid-gender-identity|penned]] an article in the Guardian along similar lines. Correia '[[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/15/larry-f-correia-international-lord-of-hate/|fisked]]' this article as well. In that fisking, he noted that Walter is currently on a grant which is funding his novel and mocked the British government for offering such grants (no word on whether he thought J. K. Rowling's writing grant was a bad idea too). The two continued the feud in subsequent posts, with Damien mostly writing at the Guardian and Correia writing in his own blog. ([[http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/may/30/science-fiction-real-life-war-worlds|Walters' next post,]] [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/06/02/fisking-the-guardians-village-idiot-part-1/|Correia's next post {part 1}]], {[[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/06/03/fisking-the-guardians-village-idiot-part-2/|part 2]]}). (Feud discussed on meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134519.html?thread=702638711#cmt70263|here]]). Later, another writer named Damien G. Walter [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/science-fiction-needs-to-reflect-queer-fluid-gender-identity|penned]] an article in the Guardian along similar lines. Correia '[[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/15/larry-f-correia-international-lord-of-hate/|fisked]]' this article as well. In that fisking, he noted that Walter is currently on a grant which is funding his novel and mocked the British government for offering such grants (no word on whether he thought J. K. Rowling's writing grant was a bad idea too). The two continued the feud in subsequent posts, with Damien mostly writing at the Guardian and Correia writing in his own blog. ([[http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/may/30/science-fiction-real-life-war-worlds|Walters' next post,]] [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/06/02/fisking-the-guardians-village-idiot-part-1/|Correia's next post {part 1}]], {[[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/06/03/fisking-the-guardians-village-idiot-part-2/|part 2]]}). (Feud discussed on meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134519.html?thread=702638711#cmt70263|here]]).
  
-A writer named A. A. George [[http://www.tor.com/2014/08/13/gamings-race-problem-gen-con-and-beyond/|wrote]] a post about how he didn't feel comfortable at GenCon because it was so heavily dominated by white people. Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/08/19/no-tor-com-gencon-isnt-racist-a-fisking/|called]] him a racist nut. Later, N. K. Jemisin subtweeted this by saying that a PoC at GenCon called Larry a jerk, and Correia then responded in his usual angry manner (meme [[#|discussion]]).+A writer named A. A. George [[http://www.tor.com/2014/08/13/gamings-race-problem-gen-con-and-beyond/|wrote]] a post about how he didn't feel comfortable at GenCon because it was so heavily dominated by white people. Correia [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/08/19/no-tor-com-gencon-isnt-racist-a-fisking/|called]] him a racist nut. Later, N. K. Jemisin subtweeted this by saying that a PoC at GenCon called Larry a jerk, and Correia then responded in his usual angry manner (meme [[https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/140209.html?thread=737802161#cmt737802161|discussion]]).
  
 In mid-2014, Correia [[http://agilebrit.livejournal.com/1097621.html|helped]] Agilebrit, a right-wing Utah-based author who repeatedly defended Correia from charges of sexism on the basis that Correia was personally friendly to her, get a book deal. Meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/137945.html?thread=723387353#cmt72338|discussed]] the nepotism. In mid-2014, Correia [[http://agilebrit.livejournal.com/1097621.html|helped]] Agilebrit, a right-wing Utah-based author who repeatedly defended Correia from charges of sexism on the basis that Correia was personally friendly to her, get a book deal. Meme [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/137945.html?thread=723387353#cmt72338|discussed]] the nepotism.
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