I’m not familiar with him or his work. But hearing this makes me want to go see the movie.
I never really went to Chick Fill A regularly before the liberals declared war on them, but am going more often since the liberals urged boycotting them.
Ender’s Game is one of the best novels I have ever read. It is really fantastic.
I still remembered when the fag marriage storm a year ago with Chick Fil A, and on a dull Sunday, i managed to pass by the Hollywood location and 2 fags had signs protesting.
Another car passed by and yelled “you know they’re closed on Sundays right?”
Glenn Beck has brought up Orson Scott Card’s name up a lot over the years. That is how I know him. He was on his show.
Its one of the biggest selling science fiction novels of all time. Considered a classic. On many middle school and high school reading lists. Card is often mentioned in the same company as Heinlein and Asimov.
Card was one of those authors who could and did sell an extensive range of sequels on the strength of his name recognition.
Personally I am not quite that enthusiastic about it, and less so about the sequels. I think the book is very decent though Card’s (long)short story it was expanded from (Analog magazine @ 1977) was better. The padding into a novel didn’t improve it. If the moviemakers had a clue they would have used Cards story more than the books. But thats the sci fi geek in me saying it, who else would be reading Analog ?
Its much better than most other “young adult” best sellers of recent years (so far as I am familiar with them) but in itself thats not saying much.
It is an interesting and non-trivial starting point for a discussion of moral reasoning. The issues and points of view in the story and book are complex, nuanced, and tragic in the classical sense. No intelligent reader of this thing will dismiss Card as a lightweight.
As for Card, his reputation is secure. Heinlein and others have been similarly attacked by the liberal mafia in their day, on the strength of the enthusiasms of the moment, and they haven’t gone away.