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What about Orson Scott Card? Should OSC be free, hypothetically, to ensure homophobes moderate any Ender themed reddits? I dont think so.
Comment by jaiwithani at 30/01/2014 at 00:46 UTC
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That is a very good point.
Comment by loquacious at 29/01/2014 at 11:27 UTC
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I'm all for that, because Ender's Game is space opera military porn that is actually somehow worse than Heinlein's Starship Troopers, which actually manages to comment a little on the absurdity of war and facism. But just a little.
No, look, put down the pitchforks. I get it. Ender's Game is a nice story about the golden Child saving the universe by being uncommonly good at strategy games, game theory and what amounts to video games - and he's a likeable character and a lot of folks really enjoyed pretending to be him.
But OSC's problematic ideologies - like Heinlein's - shine through with careful reading. Or even sloppy reading, sometimes.
I say let OSC hoist himself as hard as he likes on his own petard.
Anyway, read John Brunner's earlier stuff like The Sheep Look Up, Stand on Zanzibar, The Shockwave Rider and The Stone That Never Came Down. They are so relevant today it'll give you nightmares about it, yet it's action packed, hard hitting stuff.