Vox Day

Theodore Robert Beale (born August 21, 1968), commonly known as Vox Day, is an American activist and writer.

He has been described as a far-right white supremacist, a misogynist, and part of the alt-right.

The Wall Street Journal described him as "the most despised man in science fiction".

Beale started in video game development, which led to him writing science fiction and social commentary with a focus on issues of religion, race and gender.

He became active in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, from which he was expelled, and was a central figure in the "Rabid Puppies" controversy involving the Hugo Awards for science fiction.

He is active in publishing, being a founding member of Castalia House.

Beale grew up in Minnesota, the son of Rebecca and Robert Beale.

He states on his blog that he is of English, Irish, Mexican, and Native American descent.

He graduated from Bucknell University in 1990.

Beale was a member of the band Psykosonik between 1992 and 1994.

Beale and Andrew Lunstad founded the video game company Fenris Wolf in 1993.

He first used the aliases as a contributor for the magazine Computer Gaming World throughout the first half of 1995.

He then appeared in a weekly video game review column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and later continued to use the pen name for a weekly WorldNetDaily opinion column.

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.

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.

Beale created the WarMouse – known as the OpenOffice Mouse until Sun Microsystems objected on trademark grounds – a computer mouse with 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, a thumb-operated joystick, and 512k of memory.

Beale writes under the pseudonym Vox Day – a near-homophone for the Latin phrase "Vox Dei", literally "the voice of God".

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".

Beale served as a member of the Nebula Award Novel Jury in 2004.

The book was named a 2007 Christmas recommendation by John Derbyshire in the conservative magazine National Review Online.

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.

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.

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".

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 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.

In 2015, The Wall Street Journal described Beale as "the most despised man in science fiction".

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.

In 2016, Castalia House works had two wins at the Dragon Awards:

In 2017, Beale launched Infogalactic, an English-language wiki encyclopedia.

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]".

It has been described by Wired and The Washington Post as a version of Wikipedia targeted to alt-right readers.

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.