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I'm guessing most of y'all have heard by now about Orson Scott Card's "I've re-written Hamlet so that it's about how the true tragedy was that Hamlet's father was a pedophile who turned his son and half the other characters in the play gay and that's why they died, and also my prose has suddenly started sucking and hey, I never got why Hamlet had to be so indecisive anyway" literary masterpiece.
(Was Ultimate Iron Man a sign of even more terrible Rewrites That Completely Miss The Point to come?)
There's been a gratifying amount of WTF from at least some pro SF writers over it, and Scott Lynch, who is now my hero for more reasons than having Locke Lamora get beat up so thoroughly and deliciously in <i>Lies of Locke Lamora</i> and just creating Jean Tannen in general, has offered a new masterpiece inspired by OSC:
<a href="http://scott-lynch.livejournal.com/265746.html">THE SO MUCH LESS GAY and NOT WRITTEN WITH GAY BIG WORDS version of THE CRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH</a>.
(Was Ultimate Iron Man a sign of even more terrible Rewrites That Completely Miss The Point to come?)
There's been a gratifying amount of WTF from at least some pro SF writers over it, and Scott Lynch, who is now my hero for more reasons than having Locke Lamora get beat up so thoroughly and deliciously in <i>Lies of Locke Lamora</i> and just creating Jean Tannen in general, has offered a new masterpiece inspired by OSC:
<a href="http://scott-lynch.livejournal.com/265746.html">THE SO MUCH LESS GAY and NOT WRITTEN WITH GAY BIG WORDS version of THE CRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH</a>.