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Orson Scott Card is one of the best Sci-Fi writers. His Ender's series are enormously popular and translated to many languages. His websites attract attention of readers from all over the world.

Since 9/11 he wrote many political essays. He is a conservative democrat of Zell Miller type (there are still few left) who is upset with hijacking of his party by the Left. His articles are more inline with the FreeRepublic spirit than with his own political website: http://www.ornery.org/index.html  that is heavily populated by American- and other Leftists who are delightfully annoyed by Mr. Card's conservatism. He does not post on that site and its moderated by somebody else.

Links: his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-orsonscottcard/browse  and archived here (it is a must go place for all new to OSC political writing): http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html

His literary, non-political website: http://www.hatrack.com

His fresh articles appear in the Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC: http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/  (before being posted permanently on his The Ornery American website). Read his books/movies/and everything reviews: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/ 

His "About" page: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about.shtml

4 posted on 05/23/2005 7:02:38 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik
Orson Scott Card is one of the best Sci-Fi writers.

He certainly thinks so. His editorials make the SLC Tribune a lot, and a couple of weeks ago, he published one that dissed the entire Star Trek franchise, and celebrated its end.

Not just the last wimpy few series, but the entire thing, back to 1966 was pooh-poohed. His idea of a good sci-fi series? Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I was glad to see an editorial appear a week later that took Card to task on this. A local physician who is an administrator for a health cooperative pointed out the inspiration value of the original Star Trek, how it even spurred him on to study science.

The article is fairly agreeable to me, but there are some strange things Card slips in there. He's pretty stealthy sometimes in trying to get a few minor ideas past your mental radar screen, while hiding them between generally acceptable truths.

9 posted on 05/23/2005 7:31:23 AM PDT by hunter112 (Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
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Thank you for Card's URLs. He is an AWESOME writer.


23 posted on 05/23/2005 8:28:40 AM PDT by bookworm100
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Enders game was good (especially the short story version in the first Pournell 'There Will Be War').

Other then that his books suck. Preachy nonsense. Won't touch them anymore.

32 posted on 05/23/2005 12:24:02 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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