As much as I loved Ender's Game when I read it the first and subsequent times, I lost all respect for the man and his works after finding out what a homophobe Orson Scott Card is. He's so full of hate.
I really doubt he is afraid of homosexuals.
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#52I grew up in Greensboro, NC and ran into OSC and his family members a good bit. I'm glad to see that the movie is finally potentially happening after several false starts. I remember in high school (99?) seeing a section of a script/screenplay that one of his nephews had somehow procured and him talking about his uncle being excited about it.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original quartet is epic, Xenocide and Children of the Mind get a little bit off the cuff, but I really like them. Even the first few in the "Shadow" series were ok, but then quality dropped off. Now there are dozens of books set in the universe.
The fairly magic particles in Xenocide are based on Mormon theology, so if that's not compelling to you, the exposition of same in CotM is going to be pretty boring.
That's really compelling to me as a Mormon. I'll have to go back and read them and look for the parallels.
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#54I've never read the book. I'm debating on whether to bother or not considering Orson Scott Card is a bigoted douchecopter.
hugo and nebula winner. was a great book. Apparently Heinlein was pretty crazy too... but stranger in a strange land is a good book.
You, of course, need to work within your own set of ethics. This story is iconic sci fi. Even if you don't like it, it's a classic.
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Speaker for The Dead is good, but the book deteriorate quite quickly after that.
The original quartet is epic, Xenocide and Children of the Mind get a little bit off the cuff, but I really like them. Even the first few in the "Shadow" series were ok, but then quality dropped off. Now there are dozens of books set in the universe.
I did quite like Ender's Shadow.
The rest of the Shadow books weren't as bad as Children of the Mind, but they did seems to just follow a formula.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original quartet is epic, Xenocide and Children of the Mind get a little bit off the cuff, but I really like them. Even the first few in the "Shadow" series were ok, but then quality dropped off. Now there are dozens of books set in the universe.
The fairly magic particles in Xenocide are based on Mormon theology, so if that's not compelling to you, the exposition of same in CotM is going to be pretty boring.
The aiua? Do you think so? I thought they were just a science fiction way of talking about the soul. Mormons do believe in souls, I'll grant, but they hardly own the concept.
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#57For a long time I was skeptical that this movie could ever be made, simply because it would be impossible to find someone to play Ender. You need a 11-year-old who can seem simultaneously sympathetic and capable of killing another child.
Then I saw Hugo. Asa Butterfield might actually be able to pull that one off.
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> OSC is a homophobic asshole. He has a fear of homosexuals so intense that his mind is diseased? Let's stick to facts, not misdirection.
The level of homophobia that he has shown and some of the things in some of his book, might be construed as a mental disease. The effort that many homophobic people go to to "hate" (or whatever you want to call it) homosexual people tends to seem "diseased" to me. OSC: "I will act to destroy that government [that recognizes gay marriages] and bring it down"
Are the downvotes for the quote? It's a literal quote, in context, from Orson Scott Card... and there are many other to go with it. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
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#59Apparently, I'm the one and only nerd who read Ender's Game and found it passable at best, and slightly creepy and inhuman in general.
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#60I am going to tirelessly promote this movie because it is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid, but even more so because I really want to see the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, get made into a movie. Speaker for the Dead is a much more mature, thought provoking book, in which a grown up Ender struggles to come to terms with his actions from the first book. Speaker won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and…
Speaker for The Dead is good, but the book deteriorate quite quickly after that.
I've found all of OSC's series to be like that. I don't care for his short stories, either. I've always thought his standalone books, though, were incredibly good. Treason being an example, and Home Body.