Does anyone else like Orson Scott Card?
POSTED BY: rita
UPDATED: Saturday, March 13, 2004 18:31
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I ask because i read a collection of short stories written by himself when i lived in Ireland and was so awed by those works i had to share with any and everybody which of course means i gave the book away. Since this collection was so amazing i really do want to try and get a hold of it again but searching in bookstores hasn't been fruitful and since i can't be specific about the title shopping online hasn't worked out either. So this leads me to beg of you whe frequent this website (this site, email and occasional earthy crunchy online sites are all i know how to acess-i'm an idiot I confess) to share any knowledge you may have on this subject. Thanks in advance
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Everything he wrote besides the Ender series is crap. But Ender's alright.
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Mr. Card's official website is: http://www.hatrack.com/
There is a bibliography there.
I highly recommend:
Treason -- my favorite of Card's stand alone novels.
Seventh Son and the rest of the Alvin Maker series.
Ender's Game and the rest of the Ender series.
Enjoy! 
mattro
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Agreed, Treason wasn't all that bad... strange, but not necessarily bad.
Enders Game rocked, and then started the immediate downhill slide of sequelization.
Card is an overrated one-hit-wonder, in my opinion, but that's the great thing about sci-fi writing, you don't have to please everyone.
I am more of a Drake/Pournelle/Niven kinda guy, so Card wouldn't interest me so much anyhows.
-frem
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Card is a decent writer. He held my interest with "To the Vanishing Point" not so much with the science fiction of it, but with the notions he brought up in the book about parallel dimension travel (going to another world by hitting I-40? funny stuff).
I like Niven more, and Heinlein as well. Piers Anthony is fun, but got repetitive with his last several books. Timothy Zahn is quite enjoyable as well. Pournelle, yup good'un there.
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I enjoy OSC's writings - particularly anything to do with Ender - and try to ignore that he's a bigoted homophobe.
Truly, the man needs a cranialanalremoval.
http://www.nauvoo.com/library/hypocrites-osc.html
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Originally posted by rita:
I ask because i read a collection of short stories written by himself when i lived in Ireland and was so awed by those works i had to share with any and everybody which of course means i gave the book away. Since this collection was so amazing i really do want to try and get a hold of it again but searching in bookstores hasn't been fruitful and since i can't be specific about the title shopping online hasn't worked out either. So this leads me to beg of you whe frequent this website (this site, email and occasional earthy crunchy online sites are all i know how to acess-i'm an idiot I confess) to share any knowledge you may have on this subject. Thanks in advance
He wrote a lovely early collection called "Songmaster," I think (or "Song" something). and of course "Ender's Game" is quite possibly my second favorite piece of 20th century fiction (after LOTR). I'm not wild about the more recent stuff. . . .
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The "Ender" movies are supposedly getting made. They wanted to film the movies for all the Enders together so that they can get the kid actors all in the same period.
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Enders Game rocked. The rest of the Enders series was pretty much trying to live off the reflected glory of the first...
RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.
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Ender's Game was indeed an awesome book... The bashing of the rest of the series is unwarrented, imho. Sure, it wasn't Ender's Game. It wasn't even as good, in a different way.
I was different, though. If you think of the sequels as a trilogy, and Ender's Game as a stand alone book, set in the same universe and with some of the same characters, then I think it holds up pretty well on its own.
The Ender's Shadow series however, was basically rubbish. They were fairly well written, but extremely thin in plot. I mean, Bean's story was pretty weak when you compare it to the complexity of Ender's, and the rest of it was kinda preposterous and silly, if you ask me. Which no one did, but then again, I'm not making you read this! (Ya, it's late, I'm tired).
Heh, I was about to ask about the 'bigotted homophobe' remark, but I RTFA (Read The Freaking Article, as we would say on www.fark.com) you linked, and don't have to now...
-Rob
If you can't run, you crawl, and if you can't crawl, well, if you can't do that, you find someone to carry you.
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