Comments on: Ender’s End? http://authorscoop.com/2008/08/13/enders-end/ The Latest in Literary News Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Seb http://authorscoop.com/2008/08/13/enders-end/#comment-3258 Seb Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:31:39 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=606#comment-3258 I think we have too long a history of giving butt-headedness a free pass on account of genius (or celebrity or parentage or flawless skin and good bone structure or whatever). I think we have too long a history of giving butt-headedness a free pass on account of genius (or celebrity or parentage or flawless skin and good bone structure or whatever).

]]> By: Michael http://authorscoop.com/2008/08/13/enders-end/#comment-1515 Michael Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:04:32 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=606#comment-1515 I read Ender's Game a long, long time ago and remember enjoying it but did not consider it to be the major work of SF that it has become. Never knew anything else about Card or this controversy with him until reading this today, but he is a creep and I no longer have any interest in reading anything else he writes. Furthermore, if the long awaited movie version of Ender's Game ever gets off the ground, I hope Uwe Boll is assigned to direct. On a final note, based on the photo of Card featured on the Wikipedia page about him, I would say that there is a high probability that he is actually gay. Combined with his vicious prosecution of homosexuality and gay marriage, it seems almost certain. I read Ender’s Game a long, long time ago and remember enjoying it but did not consider it to be the major work of SF that it has become.

Never knew anything else about Card or this controversy with him until reading this today, but he is a creep and I no longer have any interest in reading anything else he writes.

Furthermore, if the long awaited movie version of Ender’s Game ever gets off the ground, I hope Uwe Boll is assigned to direct.

On a final note, based on the photo of Card featured on the Wikipedia page about him, I would say that there is a high probability that he is actually gay. Combined with his vicious prosecution of homosexuality and gay marriage, it seems almost certain.

]]> By: William Haskins http://authorscoop.com/2008/08/13/enders-end/#comment-1513 William Haskins Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:29:13 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=606#comment-1513 great article, jamie. i guess it remains to be seen if his legacy can sustain the damage he's doing to his own reputation. some writers have been able to do so (t.s. eliot's noxious, if sometimes subtle, anti-semitism leaps to mind *), but we now live in an age where public opinion proliferates and solidifies at an alarming rate. again, interesting piece. -william * http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Julius.html great article, jamie. i guess it remains to be seen if his legacy can sustain the damage he’s doing to his own reputation.

some writers have been able to do so (t.s. eliot’s noxious, if sometimes subtle, anti-semitism leaps to mind *), but we now live in an age where public opinion proliferates and solidifies at an alarming rate.

again, interesting piece.

-william

* http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Julius.html

]]> By: Sarah H. http://authorscoop.com/2008/08/13/enders-end/#comment-1512 Sarah H. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:28:17 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=606#comment-1512 That Cracked editorial is hysterical and 100% true. As a domestically-partnered-lesbian planning to one day soon make enough babies to field a basketball team, who is also a big sci-fi-nerd Ender-Wiggin-and-Bean-Delphiki-loving zealot, I am majorly conflicted over this issue! On one hand, if I refused to read every author who disagreed with my political views, I wouldn't have much to read. In fact, I'd just have to write my own books for me, and hope I don't inadvertently give offense to myself! On the other hand, Card is so hateful and the hate is directed at me! He's never even met me! It feels like a total betrayal of a reader's trust of her author. Back to the first hand, I love all 8 books in the Ender and Ender's shadow seriesES, and there are two more sequels coming out, this year and next. I am nearly dying to find out what happens to Petra and Bean--should I read the books or not? I don't have a good answer to that question. That Cracked editorial is hysterical and 100% true. As a domestically-partnered-lesbian planning to one day soon make enough babies to field a basketball team, who is also a big sci-fi-nerd Ender-Wiggin-and-Bean-Delphiki-loving zealot, I am majorly conflicted over this issue! On one hand, if I refused to read every author who disagreed with my political views, I wouldn’t have much to read. In fact, I’d just have to write my own books for me, and hope I don’t inadvertently give offense to myself!
On the other hand, Card is so hateful and the hate is directed at me! He’s never even met me! It feels like a total betrayal of a reader’s trust of her author.
Back to the first hand, I love all 8 books in the Ender and Ender’s shadow seriesES, and there are two more sequels coming out, this year and next. I am nearly dying to find out what happens to Petra and Bean–should I read the books or not? I don’t have a good answer to that question.

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