Pages

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Dinosaur porn or Rabid Puppy pastiche? The strange story of Chuck Tingle

The explicit erotica parody arrived on a Hugo award shortlist after Vox Day’s endorsement – but who the author is and how he got nominated remains mysterious

Who is Chuck Tingle? Here are the details gleaned from his social media presence: he lives in Billings, Montana, he has a son called Jon, is widowed. He is apparently both a Tae Kwon Do grandmaster and a PhD in holistic massage. Mainly, he is an erotic author and inventor of “the tingler” – “a story so blissfully erotic that it cannot be experienced without eliciting a sharp tingle down the spine.”

Related: Rex appeal: the literary attraction of dinosaur erotica

Related: The Hugo Awards: George RR Martin, Vox Day and Alastair Reynolds on the prize's future

IMPORTANT: cant go to hugos award so to thwart devil plans, true buckaroo ZOE QUINN (name of @unburtwitch) has agreed to accept award for me

Continue reading...

via Science fiction | The Guardian http://ift.tt/209PmUG

No comments:

Post a Comment