Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called “HFY” or “Humanity Fuck Yeah” which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill stupid evil caricature aliens 1000:1. Once in a while there’s a story where an alien race does a massacre to humans which gives the humans an excuse to gloriously commit righteous genocide
Why is this a thing
Who asked for it
Who’s watching it
From what I remember it is, albeit very short (only a few pages long IIRC). It’s one of those old short stories published in magazines.
From what I’ve heard his writing isn’t as chuddy as it sounds (the short story I mentioned is the only bit of I’ve actually read), for all that it was a huge inspiration to chuds, but it is very much
, yes.
Alternate history tends to attract/create two types of writers: outright chuds, and New Deal liberals who combine a basically progressive outlook with American exceptionalism and unexamined conservative assumptions. Turtledove is one of the latter.