Vox Day#Infogalactic

Beale grew up in Minnesota, the son of Rebecca and Robert Beale.{{cite journal|journal=Star Tribune|title=Tax deniers' crusade 'becomes a religion' – Wealthy CEO Robert Beale might not fit the profile of a tax evader – except for an unshakable faith in his own convictions.|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:STMB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1208DFF3621D75A0&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D663DC0A81A15EA|last=Tevlin|first=John|date=May 4, 2008|access-date=November 13, 2011|page=B1}} He graduated from Bucknell University in 1990.{{cite journal|url=http://www.bucknell.edu/Documents/Communication/BMagazine/Summer08.pdf|title=Reviews and Criticism: Vox Day (Theodore Beale '90) The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens|journal=Bucknell Magazine|date=Summer 2008|publisher=Bucknell University|page=17|access-date=December 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225404/http://www.bucknell.edu/Documents/Communication/BMagazine/Summer08.pdf|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live}}

Beale was a member of the band Psykosonik between 1992 and 1994.{{citation|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/11607-Psykosonik|title=Psykosonik|access-date=June 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314224501/https://www.discogs.com/artist/11607-Psykosonik|archive-date=March 14, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/psykosonik-mw0000057295|title=Psykosonik|author=Cooper, William|website=AllMusic|access-date=September 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012014112/http://www.allmusic.com/album/psykosonik-mw0000057295|archive-date=October 12, 2016|url-status=live}}

Beale and Andrew Lunstad founded the video game company Fenris Wolf in 1993. The company was developing two games – Rebel Moon Revolution and Traveler for the Sega Dreamcast – when it closed in 1999 after a legal dispute with its retail publisher GT Interactive.{{cite web|url=http://pc.ign.com/articles/066/066861p1.html|title=Fenris Wolf Sues GT Interactive: Developer of Rebel Moon Series Charges Breach of Contract|publisher=IGN|date=February 11, 1999|access-date=May 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627165002/http://pc.ign.com/articles/066/066861p1.html|archive-date=June 27, 2009|url-status=dead}} In 1999, under the name Eternal Warriors, Beale and Lunstad released The War in Heaven, a Biblical video game published by Valusoft and distributed by GT Interactive.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/18/business/it-s-demons-vs-angels-in-computer-game-with-a-religious-theme.html|title=It's Demons vs. Angels in Computer Game With a Religious Theme|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=October 18, 1999|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514052849/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/18/business/it-s-demons-vs-angels-in-computer-game-with-a-religious-theme.html|archive-date=May 14, 2009|url-status=live|access-date=May 18, 2010}}

Beale created the WarMouse (known as the OpenOffice Mouse until Sun Microsystems objected on trademark grounds{{Cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/|title=OpenOffice distances itself from OpenOfficeMouse, joins everyone else|website=Engadget|date=November 9, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915124055/https://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/|archive-date=September 15, 2016|url-status=live}}), a computer mouse with 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, a thumb-operated joystick, and 512k of memory.{{cite web|title=WarMouse Meta review|first=Joanna|last=Stern|work=Engadget|date=May 3, 2010 |url=https://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/warmouse-meta-review/|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051212/https://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/warmouse-meta-review/|archive-date=December 22, 2017|url-status=live}}

Beale writes under the pseudonym Vox Day – a near-homophone for the Latin phrase "Vox Dei", literally "the voice of God".[https://www.translate.com/latin-english Latin to English translation], Translate.com. The phrase comes from the Latin expression Vox Populi, Vox Dei ("the voice of the people is the voice of god"). He first used the aliases as a contributor for the magazine Computer Gaming World throughout the first half of 1995.{{cite magazine |url=https://cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_128.pdf |title=Can't Stand the Heat? |last=Dei |first=Vox |magazine=Computer Gaming World |issue=128 |date=March 1995 |page=112}}{{cite magazine |url=https://cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_128.pdf |title=Vertigo to the Third Degree |last=Day |first=Vox |magazine=Computer Gaming World |issue=131 |date=June 1995 |page=104}} He then appeared in a weekly video game review column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press,{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/industry_analysis/19980731/pitch_07.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307060743/http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/industry_analysis/19980731/pitch_07.htm|archive-date=March 7, 2008|title=Fenris Wolf|publisher=Gamasutra|first=Tom|last=Loftus|date=July 31, 1998|access-date=November 20, 2011}} and later continued to use the pen name for a weekly WorldNetDaily opinion column. In 2000, Beale published his first solo novel, The War in Heaven, the first in a series of fantasy novels with a religious theme titled The Eternal Warriors. The novel investigates themes "about good versus evil among angels, fallen and otherwise".{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010416/29367-other-worlds-suffused-with-religion.html|title=Other Worlds, Suffused With Religion|work=Publishers Weekly|last=Winston|first=Kimberly|date=April 16, 2001|access-date=November 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222091358/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010416/29367-other-worlds-suffused-with-religion.html|archive-date=December 22, 2014|url-status=live}}

Beale served as a member of the Nebula Award Novel Jury in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/006122.html|title=New heights of prestige for the Nebula Award|publisher=Electrolite|first=Patrick|last=Nielsen Hayden|date=May 1, 2005|access-date=April 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413081043/http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/006122.html|archive-date=April 13, 2014|url-status=live}}

In 2008, Beale published The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, a book devoted to criticizing the arguments presented in various books by atheist authors Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michel Onfray.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20080303/14771-in-defense-of-god.html|title=In Defense of God: Atheist bestsellers have spurred on protectors of the faith|work=Publishers Weekly|last=Smith|first=Lori|date=March 3, 2008|access-date=November 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129074545/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20080303/14771-in-defense-of-god.html|archive-date=November 29, 2014|url-status=live}} The book was named a 2007 Christmas recommendation by John Derbyshire in the conservative magazine National Review Online.{{cite web|url=http://article.nationalreview.com/334497/christmas-shopping-2007/nro-symposium|title=Christmas Shopping 2007: A Time for Recommendations|work=National Review|last=Derbyshire|first=John|author-link=John Derbyshire|date=November 21, 2007|access-date=May 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604022831/http://article.nationalreview.com/334497/christmas-shopping-2007/nro-symposium|archive-date=June 4, 2010|url-status=dead}}

In early 2014, Beale founded Castalia House publishing in Kouvola, Finland. He is lead editor and has published the work of such writers as John C. Wright, Jerry Pournelle, Tom Kratman, Eric S. Raymond, Martin van Creveld, Rolf Nelson, and William S. Lind.{{cite web|title=2015 Hugo Awards|date=March 31, 2015|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards/|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|access-date=November 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905132816/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards/|archive-date=September 5, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=2015 Hugo and Campbell Award Finalists|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/04/2015-hugo-and-campbell-award-finalists/|website=Locus Online|date=April 2015|publisher=Locus Publications|access-date=November 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211174921/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/04/2015-hugo-and-campbell-award-finalists|archive-date=December 11, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/26/8495415/hugos-sad-puppies-controversy/|title=How conservatives took over sci-fi's most prestigious award|website=Vox|date=April 26, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212005101/http://www.vox.com/2015/4/26/8495415/hugos-sad-puppies-controversy|archive-date=February 12, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2016}}

In 2016, Castalia House works had two wins at the Dragon Awards:{{cite web|url=http://awards.dragoncon.org/winners|title=Winners|access-date=September 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907114052/http://awards.dragoncon.org/winners/|archive-date=September 7, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://file770.com/?p=30445|title=First Dragon Awards Presented|date=September 4, 2016|access-date=September 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907164814/http://file770.com/?p=30445|archive-date=September 7, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=2016 Dragon Award |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?63+2016 |website=The Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date=3 August 2019}}

• Best Science Fiction Novel: Somewhither, by John C. Wright
• Best Apocalyptic Novel: Ctrl-Alt-Revolt! by Nick Cole

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{{anchor|Infogalactic}}In 2017, Beale launched Infogalactic, an English-language wiki encyclopedia.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/article/game-of-thrones-is-tolkien-with-chlamydia-72ttfr9ft|title=Game of Thrones is Tolkien with chlamydia|last1=Coren|first1=Giles|date=July 22, 2017|work=The Times|access-date=May 25, 2018}} The site was a fork of the contents of English Wikipedia which could be gradually edited to remove the influence of what Beale described as "the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]".{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-nazi-slur-for-fake-news-became-an-alt-right-rallying-cry|title=How a Nazi Slur for 'Fake News' Became an Alt-Right Rallying Cry|last1=Huetlin|first1=Josephine|date=October 8, 2017|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621053221/https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-nazi-slur-for-fake-news-became-an-alt-right-rallying-cry|archive-date=June 21, 2018|url-status=live}} It has been described by Wired and The Washington Post as a version of Wikipedia targeted to alt-right readers.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/silicon-valley-escalates-its-war-on-white-supremacy-despite-free-speech-concerns/2017/08/16/842771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html|title=Silicon Valley escalates its war on white supremacy despite free speech concerns|last1=Jan|first1=Tracy|date=August 17, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103121925/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/silicon-valley-escalates-its-war-on-white-supremacy-despite-free-speech-concerns/2017/08/16/842771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html|archive-date=January 3, 2019|url-status=live}}

In September 2018, Beale announced Comicsgate Comics as a "100% SJW-free" comic book publishing imprint. The use of this name drew backlash from Ethan Van Sciver and other Comicsgate activists, who variously objected to being associated with white supremacists or to the name being commercialized. Beale later renamed the imprint to Arkhaven Comics.

Beale also runs YouTube channels which, according to The Daily Dot, have jointly more than 49,500 subscribers.

In 2013, Beale ran unsuccessfully against Steven Gould to succeed John Scalzi as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). African-American writer N. K. Jemisin, during her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at 2013 Continuum in Australia, stated that 10% of the SFWA membership voted for Beale in his bid for the SFWA presidential position and called him "a self-described misogynist, racist, anti-Semite, and a few other flavors of asshole" and asserted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling them.{{cite web|url=https://litreactor.com/columns/controversies-inside-the-worl-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy|title=Controversies Inside the World of Science Fiction and Fantasy|last=Khanna|first=Rajan|date=November 26, 2013|website=Lit Reactor|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914205351/https://litreactor.com/columns/controversies-inside-the-worl-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy|archive-date=September 14, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=September 8, 2016}} Beale responded by calling Jemisin an "ignorant half-savage". In the resulting interactions, Beale also called writer and editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden a "fat frog".{{cite web|last=|first=|date=August 14, 2013|title=SFWA Board Votes to Expel Beale|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/08/beale-expelled-from-sfwa/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817074044/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/08/beale-expelled-from-sfwa|archive-date=August 17, 2013|access-date=August 15, 2013|website=|publisher=Locus Online}}

Beale tweeted a link to his comments about Jemisin on the SFWA's official @SFWAAuthors Twitter feed. The SFWA Board subsequently voted unanimously to expel him from the organization. In 2015, The Wall Street Journal described Beale as "the most despised man in science fiction".{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-wars-invade-science-fiction-1431707195|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 15, 2015|title=The Culture Wars Invade Science Fiction|access-date=February 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302190205/http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-wars-invade-science-fiction-1431707195|archive-date=March 2, 2016|url-status=live}}

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Based on Larry Correia's "Sad Puppies" ballot-manipulation campaign, Beale implemented a slate of candidates for the 2015 Hugo Awards called "Rabid Puppies", instructing his followers to nominate the slate "precisely as they are." The Rabid Puppies slate placed 58 of its 67 recommended nominees on the ballot. Two of the nominations were for Beale himself (Best Editor - Long Form, Best Editor - Short Form) and eleven were for works published by his publisher Castalia House,{{cite web|work=Nyt.fi|url=http://nyt.fi/a1305959954351|title=Yhdysvaltain scifimaailmassa riehuu sota, johon Game of Thrones -kirjailijakin on sotkeutunut – ja kaiken keskiössä on tämä kouvolalaismies|language=fi|date=March 6, 2015|access-date=June 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603131328/http://nyt.fi/a1305959954351|archive-date=June 3, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://electricliterature.com/the-2015-hugo-nominees/|title=The 2015 Hugo Nominees|website=Electric Literature|date=April 4, 2015|access-date=January 16, 2022}} where Beale acts as lead editor.{{Cite web|work=Slate|date=April 8, 2015|title=How Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Got Their Own Full-Blown Gamergate|first=Katy|last=Waldman|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/04/08/_2015_hugo_awards_how_the_sad_and_rabid_puppies_took_over_the_sci_fi_nominations.html|access-date=April 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114234926/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/04/08/_2015_hugo_awards_how_the_sad_and_rabid_puppies_took_over_the_sci_fi_nominations.html|archive-date=January 14, 2016|url-status=live}} Two authors, an editor, and a fanzine subsequently withdrew their own nominations; three of these four explicitly cited the wish to dissociate themselves from Beale as being among their reasons for doing so.{{cite web|title = Two Authors Withdraw Their Work From This Year's Hugo Awards|url=http://io9.com/two-authors-withdraw-their-work-from-the-hugo-awards-1698053027/|work = io9|date=April 15, 2015 |access-date = April 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416000518/http://io9.com/two-authors-withdraw-their-work-from-the-hugo-awards-1698053027|archive-date = April 16, 2015|url-status = live|df = mdy-all}}[http://aletheakontis.com/2015/04/in-which-edmund-schubert-withdraws-from-the-hugos/ In Which Edmund Schubert Withdraws From the Hugos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404105331/http://aletheakontis.com/2015/04/in-which-edmund-schubert-withdraws-from-the-hugos/ |date=April 4, 2016 }}, by Edmund Schubert; at AletheaKontis.com; published April 27, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2016{{cite web|title = Black Gate Withdraws from Hugo Consideration|date=April 19, 2015 |url=http://www.blackgate.com/2015/04/19/black-gate-withdraws-from-hugo-consideration/|access-date = April 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422020356/http://www.blackgate.com/2015/04/19/black-gate-withdraws-from-hugo-consideration/|archive-date = April 22, 2015|url-status = live|df = mdy-all}} Withdrawals from the Best Novel category allowed space for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem to move into a finalist position,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters|title=Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters|author=Wallace, Amy|magazine=Wired|date=August 23, 2015|access-date=September 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826193307/http://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters|archive-date=August 26, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/04/2015-hugo-awards-ballot-further-revised|title=2015 Hugo Awards Ballot, Further Revised|date=April 17, 2015|website=Locus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918190258/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/04/2015-hugo-awards-ballot-further-revised|archive-date=September 18, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=September 5, 2016}} and it went on to win the Best Novel Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2015HugoStatistics.pdf|title=2015 Hugo Statistics|access-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905120203/http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2015HugoStatistics.pdf|archive-date=September 5, 2015|url-status=live}} Although the winning novel was one of the few nominees not on the Rabid Puppies slate, some sources credited the win to Beale's backing of the novel.{{cite web|url=http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-three-body-trilogy-or-at-least-two-thirds-of-it|title=The Three-Body Trilogy, Or at Least Two-Thirds of It (Excerpt from Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons: Notes on Science Fiction and Culture in the Year of Angry Dogs, Eruditorum Press, 2015)|author=Sandifer|first=Elizabeth|date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425192511/http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-three-body-trilogy-or-at-least-two-thirds-of-it/|archive-date=April 25, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=September 9, 2016}}

Beale stated that his intentions behind the Rabid Puppies campaign were that he "wanted to leave a big smoking hole where the Hugo Awards were" and send "a giant Fuck You—one massive gesture of contempt." He also said that no matter how the Hugo administrators modify the nominating process to try to prevent manipulation, he will still have enough supporters to control future awards: "I have 390 sworn and numbered vile faceless minions who are sworn to mindless and perfect obedience."[https://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309050118/https://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters/ |date=March 9, 2017 }}, by Amy Wallace, in Wired; published August 23, 2015. Retrieved August 26, 2015

In 2016, Beale continued the Rabid Puppies campaign, posting a slate of finalists for the Hugo Award, including all finalists in the Best Short Story category.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/26/hugo-awards-shortlist-rightwing-campaign-sad-rabid-puppies|last=Barnett|first=David|date=April 28, 2016|title=Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign|access-date=April 28, 2016|work=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427144645/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/26/hugo-awards-shortlist-rightwing-campaign-sad-rabid-puppies|archive-date=April 27, 2016|url-status=live}} Beale included himself on the slate of candidates, and was nominated in the category Best Editor, Long Form, the Castalia House Blog edited by Jeffro Johnson in the category Best Fanzine, and his own non-fiction release SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, published by Castalia House, in the category Best Related Work.

Other Rabid Puppy recommendations that were Hugo Award finalists included Chuck Tingle's short story Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Hao Jingfang's Folding Beijing, which won in the Best Novelette category.{{cite web|url=http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2016/08/hugo-award-predictions-handicapping-sheet|title=Hugo Award Predications Handicapping Sheet|website=Amazing Stories|date=August 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818183910/http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2016/08/hugo-award-predictions-handicapping-sheet/|archive-date=August 18, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=September 7, 2016}} All nominated works associated with Castalia House ranked below No Award.{{citation|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards|title=The 2016 Hugo Awards|date=December 29, 2015|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614210833/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/|archive-date=June 14, 2016|url-status=live}}

Beale was an early supporter of Gamergate and hosted the GGinParis meetup in July 2015 with Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich.{{cite news |author=Audureau, William |date=July 15, 2015 |title=A la rencontre du GamerGate, le mouvement libertarien qui veut défendre " ses " jeux vidéo |work=Le Monde |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/07/15/a-la-rencontre-du-gamergate-le-mouvement-libertarien-qui-veut-defendre-ses-jeux-video_4683912_4408996.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222120419/http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/07/15/a-la-rencontre-du-gamergate-le-mouvement-libertarien-qui-veut-defendre-ses-jeux-video_4683912_4408996.html |archive-date=December 22, 2015}}

In 2019, Beale put together a campaign to crowdfund Rebel's Run, which was to be an "anti-woke" superhero movie.Kyle Barr, [https://gizmodo.com/vox-day-anti-woke-rebel-s-run-1849682896 'Anti-Woke' Superhero Film Gets Cancelled After Losing All Its Fans' Donations], Gizmodo, Oct 21, 2022. Retrieved Oct. 22, 2022.Will Sommer, [https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-woke-superhero-movie-rebels-run-blown-up-in-dollar1-million-con Anti-Woke Superhero Movie Blown Up in $1 Million Con], The Daily Beast''. Retrieved Oct. 22, 2022. The campaign exceeded its original goal and collected slightly over a million dollars in funding, which was to be held in escrow while Beale worked to secure additional funds to make the movie. In 2022, however, Beale announced that he had put the funds in an investment with Ohana Capital Financial, which allegedly spent the funds on an unrelated business undertaking. Ohana owner James Wolfgramm has been indicted on charges of fraud.{{Cite web |last1=Scholl |first1=Jacob |last2=Jan. 13 |first2=KSL com {{!}} Posted- |last3=A.m |first3=2022 at 10:02 |title=Utahn accused of defrauding Bitcoin-mining clients, moving customer money illegally |url=https://www.ksl.com/article/50326371/utahn-accused-of-defrauding-bitcoin-mining-clients-moving-customer-money-illegally |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=www.ksl.com |language=en}} By video, Beale told the subscribers "I wouldn't count on us getting the money back."

The Hugo voters ranked "Opera" sixth out of five nominees, behind No Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-awards-worldcon-2014|title=5 reasons to pay attention to the Hugo Awards—and one big reason not to|last=Baker-Whitelaw|first=Gavia|date=August 18, 2014|website=The Daily Dot|access-date=August 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818225224/http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-awards-worldcon-2014/|archive-date=August 18, 2014|url-status=live}} In the 2015 Hugos, it was alleged that his nomination may have been the result of "block voting by special interest groups".Fortune, Ed (April 4, 2015) [https://www.starburstmagazine.com/hugo-awards-nominee-announcement-causes-controversy "Hugo Awards Nominee Announcement Causes Controversy"] Starburst Magazine In all cases, his nominations have been ranked below "No Award" in the final vote.{{cite web |title=2014 Hugo Award Statistics |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2014HugoStatistics.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824130200/http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2014HugoStatistics.pdf |archive-date=August 24, 2014 |access-date=August 18, 2014 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society}}[https://www.wired.com/2015/10/hugo-awards-controversy/ Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards and the Battle for Pop Culture's Soul] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117222440/http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hugo-awards-controversy/ |date=November 17, 2015 }}, by Amy Wallace, in Wired; published October 30, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2016

Beale is married,{{Cite web|url=https://voxday.net/2021/09/27/the-perfect-wife/|title = The Perfect Wife|date = September 27, 2021}} and has several children.{{citation|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters|title=Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters|author=Wallace, Amy|magazine=Wired|date=August 23, 2015|access-date=May 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505054123/http://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-science-fictions-hugo-awards-matters/|archive-date=May 5, 2016|url-status=live}} With his family of five, he lives in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and owns Cressier Manor in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.{{citation|url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dieses-schweizer-prachtschloss-gehoert-jetzt-einem-us-rechtsradikalen-541653428075?idp=OneLog&new_user=no|title = Dieses Schweizer Prachtschloss gehört jetzt einem US-Rechtsradikalen ("This Swiss castle now belongs to a member of the alt-right")|magazine=Tages-Anzeiger|date = June 1, 2022}}

Beale describes himself as a Christian nationalist.{{cite web |url=http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-john-c-wright-is-not-libertarian.html | title=Why John C. Wright is not a libertarian | author=Vox Day | work=Vox Populi | date=December 15, 2015 | access-date=March 17, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113210602/http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-john-c-wright-is-not-libertarian.html | archive-date=January 13, 2016 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }} He has been described as an alt-right personality by Wired,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-wikipedia-of-the-alt-right/|title=Welcome to the Wikipedia of the Alt-Right|last1=Fitts|first1=Alexis Sobel|date=June 21, 2017|magazine=Wired|access-date=January 16, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117131122/https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-wikipedia-of-the-alt-right/|archive-date=January 17, 2018}} and a leader of the alt-right by Business Insider.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=James D.|title=Get ready for the 'tech alt-right' to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-the-tech-alt-right-to-gain-influence-in-silicon-valley-2017-8|access-date=January 16, 2018|work=Business Insider|date=August 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117070315/http://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-the-tech-alt-right-to-gain-influence-in-silicon-valley-2017-8|archive-date=January 17, 2018|url-status=live}} Writing for Publishers Weekly, Kimberly Winston described Beale as a "fundamentalist Southern Baptist", but other journalists have made more pointed characterizations, such as Mike VanHelder's assertion in Popular Science that Beale's views are "white supremacist".{{cite web|work=Popular Science|title=Culture Wars Rage Within Science Fiction Fandom|url=http://www.popsci.com/culture-wars-raging-within-science-fiction-fandom?dom=fb&src=SOC|date=April 17, 2015|author=VanHelder, Mike}}

Beale has been supportive of the white supremacist Fourteen Words slogan,{{cite web |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |title=From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |access-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730114127/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |url-status=live }} promoting it in his Sixteen points of the Alt-Right,{{cite web|url=https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html|title=What the Alternate Right is|date=August 24, 2016|publisher=Vox Popoli|access-date=September 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924110132/https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html|archive-date=September 24, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2017/05/22/online-alt-right-use-facial-recognition-track-anti-fascists/ |title=Online alt-right to use facial recognition to track anti-fascists |date=May 22, 2017 |publisher=Hope Not Hate |access-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804201443/https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2017/05/22/online-alt-right-use-facial-recognition-track-anti-fascists/ |archive-date=August 4, 2018 |url-status=live }} which placed the sentence "we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children" as the fourteenth point.{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right |title=The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From 'Lucifer's Hammer' to Newt's Moon Base to Donald's Wall |date=September 17, 2017 |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505070516/https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right |archive-date=May 5, 2018 |url-status=live |last1=Auerbach |first1=David }}

The New Republic reported that Beale "has written that women should be deprived of the vote".{{cite magazine|magazine=The New Republic|title=Science Fiction's White Boys' Club Strikes Back|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/121554/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-science-fiction-culture-wars|date=April 17, 2015|author=Heer, Jeet|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321095348/https://newrepublic.com/article/121554/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-science-fiction-culture-wars|archive-date=March 21, 2017|url-status=live}} Beale said in a blog post that "women's suffrage has been a complete and unmitigated disaster across the West and it is doubtful that any society can survive it for long."Beale, Theodore, (October 18, 2010). "[http://voxday.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/in-which-we-are-called-out.html In which we are called out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065441/http://voxday.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/in-which-we-are-called-out.html |date=October 29, 2017 }}", Vox Popoli. Retrieve November 29, 2017.

• A Sea of Skulls (2017)
• The Altar of Hate (2014) {{ISBN|978-952-7065-23-5}}
• The Last Witchking (2013) {{ISBN|978-952-7065-04-4}}
• The Wardog's Coin (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-935929-97-0}}
• A Throne of Bones (2012) {{ISBN|978-1-935929-82-6}}
• A Magic Broken (2012) {{ISBN|978-1-935929-79-6}}
• Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy (2008) {{ISBN|978-0-9821049-2-7}}
• The Wrath of Angels (2006) {{ISBN|978-0-7434-6982-1}} (as Theodore Beale)
• The World in Shadow (2002) {{ISBN|978-0-671-02454-3}} (as Theodore Beale)
• The War in Heaven (2000) {{ISBN|978-0-7434-5344-8}} (as Theodore Beale)

• Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker (2018) {{ISBN|978-952-7065-69-3}}
• SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police (2017) {{ISBN|978-952-7065-19-8}}
• SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police (2015) {{ISBN|978-952-7065-68-6}}
• The Return of the Great Depression (2009) {{ISBN|978-1-935071-18-1}}
• The Irrational Atheist (2008) {{ISBN|978-1-933771-36-6}}

• Cuckservative: How "Conservatives" Betrayed America (2015), John Red Eagle, ASIN B018ZHHA52
• Quantum Mortis: A Mind Programmed (2014), Jeff Sutton, Jean Sutton. Castalia House. {{ISBN|978-952-7065-13-6}}
• Quantum Mortis: Gravity Kills (2013), Steve Rzasa. Marcher Lord Hinterlands. {{ISBN|978-952-7065-12-9}}
• Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted (2013), Steve Rzasa. Marcher Lord Hinterlands. {{ISBN|978-952-7065-10-5}}
• Rebel Moon (1996), Bruce Bethke. Pocket Books. {{ISBN|978-0-671-00236-7}}. Novelization of the Rebel Moon game.
• The Anthology at the End of the Universe (2004), Glen Yeffeth (editor). BenBella Books. {{ISBN|978-1-932100-56-3}}
• Archangels: The Fall (2005) {{ISBN|978-1-887814-15-7}}
• Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth, and Religion in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles (2005), Shanna Caughey (editor). BenBella Books. {{ISBN|978-1-932100-63-1}}
• Halo Effect (2007), Glenn Yeffeth (editor). BenBella Books. {{ISBN|978-1-933771-11-3}}
• You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (2008), Chuck Palahniuk (Foreword), Read Mercer Schuchardt (Editor). BenBella Books. {{ISBN|978-1-933771-52-6}}
• Stupefying Stories October 2011 (2011), Bruce Bethke (Editor). Rampant Loon Press. ASIN B005T5B9YC
• Stupefying Stories March 2012 (2012), Bruce Bethke (Editor). Rampant Loon Press. ASIN B007T3N0XK

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