Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:53:19 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Harold Covington, sf author?
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Well, the name rings no bells at all to me... and the description of his
writing reminds me of of John Norman....

Excerpt:
One of the shadowy figures who appears to have influenced alleged Charleston
killer Dylann Roof is Harold Covington, the founder of a white separatist
movement and, within supremacist circles, an influential sci-fi author.
Covington, the latest in a long line of rightwing sci-fi writers, has been
linked to racist crimes in the past and this week called the massacre \342\200\234a
preview of coming attractions\342\200\235.

The racist manifesto and photos apparently posted by Roof makes mention of the
Northwest Front, created by Covington, a former member of the American Nazi
party who traveled to South Africa and Rhodesia in order to agitate for white
power.
<...>
Much of Covington\342\200\231s influence on his followers comes from his novels, which
are written in a style that reads like someone spilled a 50-gallon barrel of
ethnic slurs all over a stack of early-draft Robert Heinlein novels. His
choice of cultural icons dates his books considerably, even the recent ones,
which are filled with up-to-the-minute references to Jane Fonda and Gilligan\342\200\231s
Island, but the author probably doesn\342\200\231t care about these criticisms. The books
are not primarily novels, anyway.
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<http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/28/harold-covington-northwest-front-dylann-roof-manifesto-charleston-shooting>

mark