The Tom Woods Show, episode 11881.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Larry Korea is back with us again. We had him on episode 11001 to talk about guns and gun violence, and that was excellent because Larry knows an enormous amount about that,

and also because he has a personality, and those two factors put together give you one heck of a

guest. Well, today we're going to be talking about Larry's own field. Larry, of course, is a New York

Times best-selling novelist, known for his Monster Hunter and Grim Noir Chronicles series.

He has a tremendous and very devoted following.

And I want to talk about what's going on in the area of sci-fi and fantasy, where there's been some, you know, what you might call, SJW shenanigans going on, where people who aren't

in the SJW camp are getting their names dragged

through the mud with the usual accusations, with which we are grimly familiar from all other

areas of life. And in fact, Larry was recently disinvited from a rather important conference

for really no good reason other than ideological fanaticism.

So I want to check in with them and see what is going on in this area. Larry, welcome back.

Thanks for having me on. The gun episode we did last time just couldn't have been better.

Everybody loved it. Now I want to talk about something that is even more in your wheelhouse, so to speak, and that is the writing that you do and the genre in which you do it, because it seems as if there is some kind of a cultural battle going on.

I wonder if you can give us a bird's eye overview of for the uninitiated.

Sure. Yeah, we've had some recent controversies,

but this really started several years ago. For your listeners that don't know me, I'm a novelist,

and I'm a New York Times best-selling writer. I write science fiction and fantasy. And I'm also an out-of-the-closet

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