Fake science fiction blog File 七百七十 tries to amuse its Chinese bot audience by training its patented brand of menopausal trolling on Richard Paolinelli, author of the Nebula Award-nominated book Escaping Infinity.
But Richard ain’t having it.
ChinaMike – called that because the great Larry Correia exposed ChinaMike’s website as being propped up by traffic from Chinese Web Bots that made up 92% of his website’s visitors – decided I needed to be destroyed because I had the nerve to send a free book to a ComicCon in Wisconsin as part of a free giveaway for attendees after the Con’s Guests of Honor bailed out at the last minute.
I even tried to bury the hatchet with him – sent him a free copy of my book too – and he quickly called me a liar. Apparently, he recently added a “little weasel” (e-mailed to my friend Oscar who pointed out the flaw in ChinaMike’s attack) to the list of insults he wants to hurl my way.
For the most part, I’ve moved on. But not ChinaMike. Give a look at a screenshot from his website (no links to that haven of vile scumbaggery):
Here we see a rare spectacle: the proprietor of File 七百七十 has wedged his head so far up his own digestive tract that he’s collapsed into a black hole of white beard hair and Ensure:
He [Richard] often tweets about his Dragon Awards finalist Escaping Infinity, but yesterday’s tweet also identified it as a Nebula nominee.
So what’s that supposed to mean? Everyone knows his book wasn’t a Nebula finalist.
It means exactly what you’re cattily insinuating: that Escaping Infinity received at least one nomination for a Nebula Award but didn’t make the final ballot. Any SFWA member with Nebula voting eligibility can nominate a book. If a book gets at least one nomination, it’s a Nebula nominee. If it’s one of the six most-nominated books in its category, it goes on the final ballot and becomes a Nebula finalist.
A blogger with such long experience in SFF fandom should know how the Nebulas work, as should his blog’s human readers. The Chinese bots are excused.
But let’s give the botmaster the benefit of the doubt. Did Escaping Infinity get any Nebula noms?
FACT: Escaping Infinity received multiple nominations from SFWA members for Best Sci-Fi Novel. Thus making it a nominee.
FACT: It did NOT receive enough nominations to make it to the Finalist stage – it did so for the 2017 Dragon Awards I might add – and I have so noted on the page and in the ad I recently re-ran that it was a nominee (non-finalist).
FACT: Escaping Infinity is a 2017 Nebula Nominee (non-finalist).
For those keeping score. China Mike posted the equivalent of:
Nancy Kerrigan often talks about her 1994 Olympic silver medal, but yesterday she called herself a 1992 Olympic medalist.
So what’s that supposed to mean? Everyone knows she didn’t win the silver medal in 1992.
Yes, File 七百七十’s trolling of Richard actually is that retarded. And the flimsy attempt at plausible deniability where China Mike rhetorically asks “what’s that supposed to mean?” becomes retroactive projection.
What it really means is that Dr. Robotnik was particularly unimaginative and lazy that day.
Being an astute fellow not given to suffering hamfisted bullshit, gives the proper response:
I have not misled anyone.
But you, shitposter, have and I am fed up with you.
Do not ever again link to my website, screen capture my website or attempt to archive my website. Do not ever print my name, or refer to anything I have ever written or will write in the future, ever again. You are not a journalist. You have no 1st Amendment protections here. If you ever slander me again I will sue you straight into bankruptcy court by the end of the week.
China Mike: passive-aggressive guardian of a gate whose surrounding wall has long since crumbled.
Mike has shown up on a number of blogs, where his basic debate tactic seems to be saying things that do not reflect reality. I remember one on the Mad Genius blog involving the Dragon awards where just about every statement of his was easily refuted by other posters. It was kind of funny after awhile.
Perfect example in the screencap above: "Richard Paolinelli is always trying to get mentioned in this space, but making claims like this is't a good way to do it."
Brian
I commented at Richard's site but I want to repeat this question for so.e onsight:
Is there some undiagnosed mental problem or even demonic oppression at work here?
Nothing prosaic explains these off 5he wall diatribes. It's abnormal and indicates some deep disturbance whether psychological or diabolical
xavier
Mike's issue is that he desperately needs to be seen as the official chronicler of "real" sf/f fandom. So EVERY sf/f author must want to be mentioned by him, and he has to be at the center of fan attention. Since reality doesn't conform to his delusions, he finds it necessary lie quite a bit.
"China Mike runs a website that purports to detail the latest news in a sci-fi/fantasy. In truth, he’s a sewage-sucking punk that makes the Hollywood Gossip Columnists of the 30s & 40s look like Edward R. Murrow." — Richard Paolinelli
I like the cut of this man's jib!
Poor China Mike. So lonely he surrounds himself with web robots coded "Made in China", but like humans, they don't love China Mike either.
China Mike is actually Santa Claus from the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" Universe.
Somebody call the BURN ward!