Comments on: Sci-Fi Writer Advocates Overthrow of Government If Prop 8 Fails

By: Grigorii

Grigorii — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:40:46 +0000

Glad to found this interesting article. Never knew this, but its logged with me now. I never read many of his books anyway. How I found this site was searching “anti gay scifi writers” since I wished to post some horrid finding in a LeSprague De Camp book I was reading which stated gays must be kept away from any boys because they were all potential molestors. Just sick stupdity!

By: hazelnutty.net › Orson Scott Card Joins NOM Board

hazelnutty.net › Orson Scott Card Joins NOM Board — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:09:55 +0000

[...] Mormon, and has made some pretty ridiculous claims about homosexuals: Last summer, Orson Scott Card called for the overthrow of civil government if California’s Proposition 8 had failed. Writing for the Mormon Times, he said: “Regardless of [...]

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:46 +0000

Ender’s Game features young men wrestling each other in the shower, naked, while covered in soap. Methinks Card has some issues.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:52:23 +0000

This even made the monologue on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This kind of P.R. is not helping the Proposition 8 folk in California. This should be where we can show a link of the irrational religious zealous in Utah as one of the crazed proponents of Proposition 8.

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:41 +0000

Beautifully ironic! Western Civilization is destroyed after all . . . by the heterosexuals!

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:42:40 +0000

WOW! I have read his ender series, I really liked it. Out of it I got the idea of Love being the main and important force in the universe and that tolerance for others must be paramount… I hate when I find out stuff about authors I thought I knew….

By: NancyP

NancyP — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:07:33 +0000

The short story Ender’s Game was a decent one, if rather obvious even at the time (child raised in what amounts to a video game school, with a bit of kung fu master thrown in). One type of successful short story needs punch but not much characterization or pacing, and he was starting out reasonably well. I gather he didn’t provide the extras in his long-form writing.

By: Suricou Raven

Suricou Raven — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:22:35 +0000

Authors do change over time:

Piers Anthony went from respectable to super-hyper-mega-pervert.
Orson Scot Card has turned into a raving loon.
L.R Hubbard… well, that depends how much of his later works he actually believed in. He was either crazy, or one hell of a con artist.

By: Mucklucky

Mucklucky — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:28:17 +0000

I have read a good deal of Card’s books. He’s gone from being interesting to a hack of major proportions. The odd thing is, his books (almost to a one) have some sort of homoerotic feel to them.

Maybe he’s just another sad closet case? I’ve not taken the time to read the screeds linked here (and won’t as I don’t need to watch him wallow in such a sad state).

I also won’t say I’ll not read any more of his books, because I stopped reading him years ago. His ability to create meaningful, interesting fiction has been destroyed by the need to churn out book after book.

That he’s a raving loon (and possibly another one of those who hate what they will not allow themselves to be) has little to no bearing on this. His books (specifically almost any of his stuff after Speaker for the Dead) are just not well done.

Not that he’s the first author who has been raped by the almighty dollar. Nor is he the first to show off his dirty underwear in public. Sort of like when I realized that Heinlein wasn’t nearly as progressive as he sounded in his books.

By: Samantha Davis

Samantha Davis — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:06:45 +0000

If he were a chef I would expect him to spit in my entr’ee.