Mike Wiser: I've read enough novels by people who turned out to be terrible that I don't really need to directly read the evidence of how this particular one was.

Okay listen up on Neil Gaiman I'm going to speak to something very specific. All humans who love books or music or media, will encounter a point in time where their beloved, or someone they REALLY love, turns out to be a craptastic or worse person I'm still in 'wait and see' land. BUT BUT BUT BUT

As a long-time previous fan of Piers Anthony, I can confirm this to be true.

Oh god he's so goddamned gross.

Yep. Didn't really clue into it at the time but then I was a brainless teen at the time.

Me neither. Then with the Incarnations of Immortality series, it became crystal clear he was an ebiphile apologist and probably an ebiphile and I was like no no no no no

I read those as a teen, and as I recall the first couple were ... fine ... but the later ones got weird and creepy.

But at the time I was one of those "I must finish every series I start" people, so I read them all anyway. And then never read anything else by him.

If you want to feel gross, read his autobiography with the knowledge you have now.

I've read enough novels by people who turned out to be terrible that I don't really need to directly read the evidence of how this particular one was.

(My personal deal on the authors who turn out to be terrible is that I can't knowingly do things that enrich them once I know they're bad, but I can buy their books from used book sales or the like. It's where I got to reading Orson Scott Card as a gay teen, and have applied several times since.)

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