A blurb on the back cover of Orson Scott Card's novel Speaker for the Dead, on the eve of my clearing it out of my personal library:
"Card is a writer of compassion and his heart breaks for the individual men and women of good will who find themselves caught up and forced to participate in the race's homicidal crossfire." -- Washington Post Book World
I've heard Orson Scott Card has a reputation as a conservative (pro-war?) but I've never looked into the allegations. Is this a comment favoring that position?
Mostly I'm thinking of his writings and board memberships opposed to homosexuals and same-sex marriage (that triggered boycotts of the Ender's Game. movie, scuttled his scheduled Superman run, etc.) The "compassion and his heart breaks" line really seem ironic in retrospect.
I've heard Orson Scott Card has a reputation as a conservative (pro-war?) but I've never looked into the allegations. Is this a comment favoring that position?
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Mostly I'm thinking of his writings and board memberships opposed to homosexuals and same-sex marriage (that triggered boycotts of the Ender's Game. movie, scuttled his scheduled Superman run, etc.) The "compassion and his heart breaks" line really seem ironic in retrospect.
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