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There are some cases, however, where a strange combination of the author's prestige, personal life, and political bent causes things to take a strong shift. Suddenly, you're cracking open the latest book in a rollicking fantasy series and there's [[Author Tract|a hundred page section on how people wearing funny hats on Sunday should be sentenced to death by firing squad]]. Where once there was flirting, things have gotten hideously porny. Where once there was fun military action, there are now long sections on the moral failings of the Clinton Administration. Something has cracked, and the author has ended up firmly in '''Filibuster Freefall'''.
The phenomenon was first noted by author [[James Nicoll]] on the rec.arts.sf [[UseNet|newsgroup]] and dubbed "[[The Brain Eater]]" in relation to authors [[Poul Anderson]] and [[James P. Hogan]]. It is a certain form of [[Protection From Editors]] which allows the author to freely enter [[Author Tract]] territory or spout off on their views without fear of repercussion. For interest of clarification, it does not apply to authors such as [[China Mieville]] (whose works have always approached the matter from a socialist angle) or [[Ayn Rand]] (who pretty much wrote as a means of demonstrating [[Objectivism]]). For Filibuster Freefall to apply, the author has to have started off writing in a neutral, if slightly charged, manner before reaching a point where the messages are obviously being shouted in your ear to the exclusion of all else. As this is [[Flame Bait|no doubt a charged topic]], [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|poster discretion is advised]].
For the ''other'' type of Brain Eater, see [[Brain Food]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One of the most famous examples in all of comics-dom, ''[[Cerebus]]''. Starting as a look at the life of an aardvark hero and his brushes against society as a whole, the comic took a noticeable change in direction after [[Creator Breakdown|author Dave Sim underwent a nasty divorce]]. From that point on, there was a lot of Abrahamic fiddling and angry rants about how anything with a vagina drains the warmth and creativity from the world.
* [[Frank Miller]] seems to have finally gone around the bend with the ''Holy Terror'' comic.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s works have always had some sexual content. Then he started writing books like ''[[Bio of a Space Tyrant]],'' where pre-pubescent girls knowingly consent to sex with adults. No one was happy with this development, and if anybody was, they're not talking.
* [[Orson Scott Card]] started tracking this way with essays about how gay marriage was a sham and homosexuals were the products of childhood abuse. Then came ''[[Orson Scott Card's Empire|Empire]]'', which was all about liberal terrorists attacking conservative military interests. ''Empire'', as well as his essays, has somewhat colored Card's works, to the point that there was a fight over ''[[Shadow Complex]]'' because Card not only wrote the story, but drew elements from the ''Empire'' setting.
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* It looks like [[Dan Simmons]] might have finally entered this territory. First came ''[[Illium|Olympos]]'', where a Global Caliphate releases a virus to kill all Jews on Earth. A bit suspect, but no doubt a look at things spiraled out of control. Then came a short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024085922/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm posted on his website], wherein a time traveler came back from the future to warn Simmons about the creation of "[[wikipedia:Eurabia|Eurabia]]." That was more suspect, but hadn't made its way into his works. And now there's ''Flashback'', where [http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm among other dystopian themes] (which seem to add up to "Everything outside of America is going to fuck us without lube"), Europe has been taken over by a global caliphate and Islamic terror is widespread in the US, with the "Ground Zero mosque" seen as an impetus and most Americans engaging in "surrender tactics."
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Then there was ''[[BC]]''. It started as a gag strip about cavemen with a few [[Unfortunate Implications]], then in Johnny Hart's later years, he stripped out most of the jokes in favour of anviltastic Christian themes. When he passed away in 2007, his grandchildren took a meat cleaver to the hardcore religious stuff and made it a gag strip again.
== [[Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy]] ==
* [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-right-wing-watermelon-smashing-maniac/Content?oid=4357855 This article] from Seattle alt-weekly ''The Stranger'' seems to indicate that Gallagher (yes, he of the watermelon smashing) has fallen hard into this, with one of his recent shows focused on ranting against the French, women's lib, tattoos, and homosexuality (a ''lot'' in the latter case), with the show ending with Gallagher smashing a pie tin of something and screaming, "This is the China people and the queers!"
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