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Interconnected (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Books read August 2008, with date finished: Midnight's Children , Salmon Rushdie (9th, r.) Ender's Game , Orson Scott Card (14th, r.) The Black Swan , Nassim Nicholas Taleb (15th) Body of Glass , Marge Piercy (16th) Then We Came to the End , Joshua Ferris (17th) Ways of Seeing , John Berger (20th) Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information , David Byrne (23rd) The Compass Rose , Ursula K. Le...
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Mormanity (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
My latest "just for fun" reading, after Cornelius Van Dam's book on the Urim and Thummim , was an equally clean book, a sci-fi novel, The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the first book in her Retrieval Artist series. Orson Scott Card's endorsement on the cover caught my eye - very glad I read it. Well constructed and thought-out for the most part. This interesting novel gave me two thoughts...
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Orson Scott Card reviews Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son Trilogy under a post entitled Dance, Found and Renegade’s Magic, posted on the 21st of August 2008. Robin Hobb is one of the best fantasy writers ever. Writing as Megan Lindholm, she created one of the best urban fantasies ever: Wizard of the Pigeons. Since then, her interconnected [...]
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Spinneyhead (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
At least, that's one of the messages I get from a typically dumb attack on gay marriage by Orson Scott Card - When they are able to create children together, married people then provide the role models for those children to learn how to become a man or a woman, and what to expect of their spouse when they themselves marry. When a heterosexual couple cannot have children, their faithful marriage still...
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
I somehow missed this line when I posted about Orson Scott Card's astonishingly idiotic screed about gay marriage, but Andrew Sullivan noticed it. How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced...
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BlogHer (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Over the last few weeks, the Internet has been abuzz with sci-fi fan reaction to writer Orson Scott Card's most recent posts for the Mormon Times ( Science on gays falls short and State job is not to redefine marriage ) about homosexuality and gay marriage. Though he has been outspoken on the issue of homosexuality as far back as 1990 , it has only recently attracted great attention.
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Dyre Portents (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Looks like scifi writer Orson Scott Card can now add a Malkin award to his Hugo and Nebula awards. "Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where...
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monochrom (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Can an author's opinion ruin the fiction he produced? For Wired's GeekDad blog , it can. Especially if the author has outed himself as a disgusting homophobe of the worst kind: Now it's two decades later, and Orson Scott Card has written a strongly anti-gay screed that goes so far as to propose active rebellion to ensure that marriage is legally defined to his liking. Like many others who have read...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Science fiction writer and devout Mormon Orson Scott Card would rather overthrow the government than live in a country that accepts gay marriage: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it [...]
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Amber Night (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
This is so batshit insane, even Orson Scott Card has got to be saying to himself, “wow, that’s more batshit insane than the batshit insane thoughts that course through my batshit insane brain!” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing pitch to the U.S. government: Rent us space on [...]
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Lynne's Little Corner of the World (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
RACHEL & LEAH by Orson Scott Card was read for the Celebrate the Author Challenge (Mr. Card's birthday is August 24). From the book jacket: In this third volume of his Women of Genesis series, Orson Scott Card paints a vivid picture of the intertwined lives of four celebrated women. We meet Leah, the oldest daughter of Laban, whose "tender eyes" prevent her from fully participating in the daily work...
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Amber Night (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Which may not be news to you, but it was to me. Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card has identified the greatest threat ever to plague mankind, and you shall know it by its exceptional fashion sense and fondness for all things Judy Garland. From the Mormon Times, via laist.com: The first and greatest threat from [...]
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Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Famed science fiction writer Orson Scott Card ( Ender's Game ) is so outraged about gay marriage, he wants to overthrow the government. From his op-ed piece in the Mormon Times : If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't require a husband or father, and that...
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Card being Orson Scott Card, well known science fiction writer and purveyor of general stupidity. Over the last couple years he has embarrassed himself with uninformed blatherings about evolution and now he's ready to display his lack of reasoning ability by spouting off about gay marriage . And he appears to be channeling Mat Staver: The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California...
