The November Norman Spinrad column in Asimov's

by the numbers.

This Norman Spinrad, I realized too late.

A Kindle screen is somewhere around 200 words, for reference.

Kindle screens devoted to I Am Awesome : 1.

Kindle screens devoted to a review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, which he declares to be coldly cynical : 6.5
(I understand that you have some point to make about science fiction in the mainstream. I understand giving a book a bad review, especially this book. I do not understand why it's worth devoting column inches to reviewing a book that (a) everyone knows about, (b) everyone already has a set opinion about, (c) came out two years ago already, and (d) you hate. I gave Twilight a bad review, yes, but that was before Twilight was Twilight.)

Kindle screens devoted to Literary Fiction Is Bad, Science Fiction Is Great : 8

Male authors mentioned : Neal Stephenson, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Brown, Gary Shtenygart, Norman Spinrad, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Philip Roth, Robert Penn Warren, Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess

Female authors mentioned : ... ...