james_nicoll

A publisher that I will not name to avoid improving their google hits has just spammed rasfw with an announcement that --

Say, why should I help an author whose publisher spams one of my favourite groups? Let's Rot13 this --

Qnivq E. Cnyzre'f Genpxvat, gur ybat-qrynlrq frdhry gb Rzretrapr, vf svanyyl pbzvat bhg.

As I recall, Cnyzre's career arc was one promising but flawed novel followed by a nearly unreadable novel followed by nothing for a quarter of a century. Now, I can think of other SF authors with long periods in which they published nothing (Donald Kingsbury took a quarter century off after The Ghost Town, for example) so it's possible that Genpxvat will turn out to be a work of genius. Pity his publisher decided to poison the well by spamming.