elizabeth moon pulls a marty peretz, which causes a kerfuffle and raises the question of whether moon should still be guest of honor at wiscon in 2011.
i'm a wiscon person, at least sometimes i am. i've been an on-again-off-again attendee since 1995. there's a wiscon plug in the margin on the right and i've blogged from wiscon on several occasions even though since i left the midwest i haven't quite been able to go every year. so i'm disappointed to see that wiscon is sticking with moon as guest of honor. i wasn't very sure that i could make it in 2011 anyway. now, at least, i can call it a boycott.
(i also find it interesting that moon defenders are essentially making a free speech defense (as if free speech means that wiscon is required to keep someone as their guest of honor), but moon herself deleted all the critical comments to her controversial post)
ADDING: there are two muslims i know that at least sometimes have show up at wiscon. after i wrote the above i wondered what they thought about the moon controversy. one of them i knew had a blog. because i once linked to it i was able to dig the site up and found her initial reaction and a follow-up. (in case you're curious too)
