With Friends Like These, Who Need Enemas?

A few of the more polite things said about SF author Tom Kratman (from his website):

"Tom Kratman's A Desert Called Peace is practically the platonic ideal of epic Jacksonian war-porn. The printing process involves soaking the books in testosterone. It is so beautifully, terribly and gloriously Jacksonian, in fact, that merely reading the book carries the risk of pregnancy for unprotected women and metrosexuals."

(Albert Norman)

"But Kratman knows his intended audience, and is only too happy to assuage the bloodlust of the red state rabble by letting our valiant SS paladins bust some hippie heads." (Thomas M. Wagner )

"Every word he writes is bad, and that includes 'a', 'an' and 'the'."

(Michael Weber)

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Yes, you can't get higher literature than that."

(Nikki Fellenzer)

"Kratman is an idiot, and drools."

(Gene Ward Smith)

"The utter moral nihilism aside, A Watch on the Rhine and other books of its ilk reflect a worrying trend in science fiction."

(Randy McDonald)

"Kratman ist nur ein untalentierter Teilzeit-Schmierfink." ("Kratman is only an untalented small time lubrication finch." Loses a certain something in translation, doesn't it?)

(Martin Hoyer)

Hilarious stuff. From my exchanges with Colonel Kratman, he's a lot more polite than his "critics". I'm glad I've bought his books in hardcover, just to make sure he can write more and drive folks like this bat-crazy. It makes me chuckle. Deeply. And in an evil fashion.

Go, Colonel, go!

(Please note I've posted the picture on the left side of the blog, to counteract any right-wing tendencies alleged to the Colonel...)