6/23/2023 0 Comments Amélie wen zhaoBurning books is the sign of a society going wildly wrong. They are tangible, material repositories of humanity, in all its forms. Books – even trashy fantasy novels – are a key component of civilisation. Our cultural landscape is increasingly controlled by the permanently outraged. Zhao relies on these people for her income and is scared. But the line between listening to feedback and being bullied by very angry zealots is a thin one, and this incident seems to have crossed it. You could argue that she has ‘listened to feedback’ and acted accordingly. Of course, Amelie Wen Zhao halted publication herself. But you don’t need to like, or even read, a book to defend its right to be published. I’m not particularly into sword and sorcery stuff – though the fact that it has upset so many flakes has naturally piqued my interest.
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