Orson Scott Card does a lot of conservative commentary.Orson Scott Card does a lot of conservative commentary.So I've noticed. :)
Which reminds me... ;)
Whoops, sorry, should have read ahead!
And Michael Crichton has been coming around. :-)
I love Orson Scott Card. I just discovered him last year and am trying to get my teen to read him, but no sale so far. I've never been a sci-fi or fantasy fan prior to reading Card's books. I'm more the "bodice-ripper" type. (Just kidding...I read all genre; historical fiction being a fave.)
Another good introduction to fantasy would be "Under the Skin" by Michael Faber...but he's an excellent writter who is never locked into any one genre.
Review:
"The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail"