Comments on: The Red Baron

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:20:34 +0000

Hi Red Baron,

I wasn’t implying that >I< see the Germans as a faceless bunch (I’m some part German myself). I merely meant the label “The Germans” tells us nothing about individual soldiers in the same way that saying “the crowd” tells us nothing about the makeup of said crowd.

I’m open to a change of term. What would you suggest?

By: Red Baron

Red Baron — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:09:51 +0000

The fact that you see the Germans as a faceless bunch and not particularly exciting is merely the embodiment of history being the victor’s version, I don’t direct that at you but at the teaching of history these days. Though when it comes to WWI flying aces how many can most people actually name, for most Mannfred Von Richtofen has acquired an unparalleled cult status across the world which cannot be said of most Captains killed at 26 after 2 years combat service.

In real life he did not have a moustache.

I like the idea of your term but I think this may not be the correct nomenklature for it.

By: jordan

jordan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:44:22 +0000

Jason, Believe it or not, I remember that article! You published it right around when we met on SFReader. Okay, so let’s start publicizing these babies! I know just how to use “Fedora Fiction” >:)

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:03:26 +0000

I wish I could edit spelling errors but oh well. Besides, I forgot to check the ‘notify me of followup’ box, so I had to post a second time anyway:)

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:01:13 +0000

Fun term, Jordan; excellent write-up by Andrew also.

I also coined and claimed a literary term back in April 2007. In attempting to properly define/describe a story I wrote, I created the term Fedora Fiction as a subgenre of the hardboilded dective tale. Not quite mystery, more accurately thriller, yet obviously containing a detective protagonist with components of but not adherence to the pulp hardboileds. I didn’t feel my (now) stories fell into any of the existing genre specifics I could find, so I went with what I felt best defined what I wrote. To make it even more accurate, I’ve included a fedora as part of my detective’s attire – but I’ve yet to decide if that is a necessary component of the subgenre or not. I’ll leave that to posterity’s whim

By: jordan

jordan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:43:03 +0000

It’s gotta be the mustache.

By: RS

RS — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:40:09 +0000

What’s even stranger, the Red Baron always seems to look like Tom Selleck …

By: CriticalOddness » The Red Baron

CriticalOddness » The Red Baron — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:29:47 +0000

[...] My friend Jordan recently made a post in which he invents a term, and then lays claim to it. The post is relatively small, and doesn’t really serve any purpose other than marking the time and date and claimed word. [...]