Did anyone else catch Orson Scott Card’s recent interview in the magazine, Freedom, published by the Church of Scientology International? Â Not sure how or why, but I was sent a copy in the mail (I’m not a subscriber). Â The interview is kind of trippy and suggests just how ostracized Card…
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Going Godwin on Orson!!
Like most reasonable people, I don’t jump straight to Nazi references when talking about people I disagree with. OK, I know this makes twice for Main Street Plaza within two months. 😉 But while reading for SiOB a few weeks ago, I found this interesting article in which the author…
Orson Scott Card really wants you to watch Ender’s Game
An early boycott for Orson Scott Card’s book-to-movie adaptation Ender’s Game is in the works due to Card’s past homophobia. Card has responded to the boycott thusly: Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist…
Orson Scott Card – Fallen Author
There was a time when I couldn’t get enough of Orson Scott Card’s writing. I read “Ender’s Game” in middle school and loved it, and read it a few more times as a teen and was fascinated by the things I’d missed the first time around. It was a masterpiece….
Orson Scott Card: Believers who claim to have heard voices are ‘wackos’
“We already have a science fiction religion, so we never have any conflict between our religion and what we write.” — Orson Scott Card “The secret to life here is finding out what your own religion really is and perhaps adapting it and learning what your religion should be in…