Glorifying Terrorism

Glorifying Terrorism is a 2007 science fiction anthology edited by Farah Mendlesohn, which was compiled in direct response to the Terrorism Act 2006.[1] Every story in the anthology has been specifically designed to be illegal[2] under the Act's prohibition on any publication "indirectly encouraging the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism," including "every statement which glorifies the commission or preparation (whether in the past, in the future or generally) of such acts," and the anthology's introduction begins with the explicit statement that "(t)he purpose of the stories and poems in this book is to glorify terrorism."[3]

Glorifying Terrorism
EditorFarah Mendlesohn
Cover artistHaylee Fields and Mike Harwood
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genrescience fiction anthology
PublisherRackstraw Press
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint and ebook
Pages261
ISBN0-9554688-0-9

Critical response

The Morning Star offers the anthology a "rousing cheer", declaring its contributors to be "top-notch" and stating that it has "too many highlights to list"; it also states that the authors will not be prosecuted, because they are "too respectable and, mostly, too white".[4]

Contributors
gollark: I see.
gollark: Being embodied in biology is so irritating.
gollark: Maybe you should go to sleep or warm up your fingers or ??? biology things.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: I'm only asking ironically. Have you not heard of the "if you're X, name all Y" joke?

References
  1. Rackstraw Press (archive page)
  2. "Glorifying terrorism, sci-fi style: The Guardian, 16 February 2007 (accessed 14 October 2014)
  3. Glory! Glory!, SFX, May 2007, by David Langford
  4. Blair gets one in the eye from sci-fi Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, the Morning Star, 1 April 2007 (accessed 17 October 2009)
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