Politics make strange bed fellows

This is one of the more absurd Kindle books on sale here. The otherwise unknown Chuck Tingle (who claims to have “almost” a black belt in Tae Kwon Do) is the author of dozens of trashy erotic novelettes featuring sex with dinosaurs, vampires, Bigfoot, donuts and living diners (!). Their titles are surreal. One of his opera is actually called “Angry Man Pounded By The Fear Of His Latent Gayness Over A Dinosaur Transitioning Into A Unicorn”. Sounds a bit like a Salvador Dali painting, doesn't it?

At the moment, “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” is considered to be the magnum opus of the Tingleverse. The reason gives an entirely new meaning to the expression that politics make strange bed fellows. Many people have probably heard of the conflicts within the science fiction and fantasy fandoms between radical-liberal “SJWs” and the so-called alt-right. The conflicts are centered on the Hugo Awards or Hugos, the science fiction equivalent to the Academy Awards. Vox Day, who styles himself Supreme Dark Lord of the most rabid alt-right faction (yes, they are called Rabid Puppies) decided to troll the Hugo Awards by calling on his fellow factionalists to nominate “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” to the category of Best Short Story of the Year! The usual Twitter war followed, but the somewhat unusual alliance between a Christian libertarian and a writer of substandard gay erotica was even commented upon by the British newspaper The Guardian…

Presumably, nothing of importance has happened in Old Blighty lately!

As of today, it's still not clear whether Vox Day's vile faceless puppies will manage to secure the Hugo for the Tingleboy, or whether the SJW-powers-that-be will somehow manage to stop the invasion (election fraud, of course, being as American as apple pie, and, I suppose, invasions). Meanwhile, Tingle has trolled Vox, a prominent syfy writer has attempted to (quite seriously) make Tingle disavow the nomination, and somebody named Tuck Chingle has written an unofficial sequel to “Space Raptor Butt Invasion”, titled “Pounded in the Butt by Chuck Tingle's Hugo”…

OK, I admit it. My bad humor side finds this to be at least mildly entertaining, especially since I, purely by chance, posted several parody reviews of dinosaur erotica long before the raptor fracas.

As for the story itself, it's nothing much to write home about. The main character is a lonely astronaut stranded on a desolate planet who gets the ride of his life when a talking gay dinosaur from “Earth Two” shows up on his doorstep. You can easily imagine the rest of the story. And if you can't, well, even better. Somewhat surprisingly, the Kindle edition also contains a bonus story, the *really* bizarre “Turned Gay by the Living Alpha Diner”. It's not overtly clear whether it's included in the Hugo nomination, or whether the raptor is the sole contender…

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