Guy Goodman St.White Reviews The Crap-Filled Canon

Good evening. I’m Guy Good­man St.White, and I will be your exceed­ing­ly British-accent­ed guest blog­ger in my mul­ti-part pre­sen­ta­tion of the ster­ling award win­ning, and crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed: Spec­u­la­tive Fic­tion Sucks Balls (And Not In The Good Way).

Please join me as I exam­ine some of less real­is­tic exam­ples of hack genre writ­ing and the writ­ers who, were they not already dead, would cer­tain­ly deserve to have their face—as the Yanks say—pwned. I look for­ward to tak­ing our lit­tle jour­ney togeth­er.

BeowulfThe Epic of Gil­gamesh
JudithThe Illi­ad
Le Morte d’ArthurLady Felic­i­ty The Odyssey (Guest Blog)
Sir Gawain and The Green KnightPla­to’s Var­i­ous Works
Thomas More’s Utopia (Sort of)The Divine Com­e­dy
Spencer’s The Fairy QueenA Few Con­clud­ing Thoughts: West­ern Canon
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell (1984 and Ani­mal Farm)Guy Reviews a Bot­tle of Scotch

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