Orson Scott Card has a sad.
I confess falling out of love with Orson Scott Card was something I found unfortunate back in the day. I enjoyed Ender’s Game and I liked the first few books of Alvin Maker before the sermonizing got too blatant. His books on creative writing are very good and I still find the copy I own very useful. Sure I knew about his faith and politics but back in the day I figured he was someone I could have an intelligent debate with and afterwords leave as friends.
But then he started getting REALLY crazy.
Empire had me raising an eyebrow and then I read rants from him about overthrowing the constitution and that was it for me. Generally I am not big on theatrical boycotts but that doesn’t mean I feel any obligation to give someone my money either.
So after being very amused by the crash and burn experience that was him being hired by DC to write Superman, it was very interesting to see Card’s efforts to keep people from avoiding the upcoming film version of Ender’s Game…
Ain’t schadenfreude grand?
